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207 Morehead Ave.
Photo likely taken early in 1963 shows 207 Morehead Avenue in the right background, with the Lucky Strike Service Station in the distance and American Tobacco's Fowler Building at the left edge (From Durham Urban Renewal Records, Box 1. Courtesy of Durham County Library - North Carolina Collection, available online at DigitalNC.org) From the late...
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Shepherd-Mebane House
Shepherd-Mebane House 2814 Chelsea Circle, ca. 1800, moved and expanded 1927, Contributing Building - Hope Valley National Register Historic District George Watts Carr, architect for 1927 additions
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Leigh Farm
Little-visited 19th century farmhouse and city park on the edge of I-40 and 54 in southwest Durham
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West Durham Baptist Church (black Congregation, First)
Scan of an 1890s tintype image. Courtesy of Durham County Library, Durham Historic Photographic Archives (Mattie Bagley, contributor). Not to be confused with the white congregation of the same name (and formed in the same decade), the West Durham Baptist Church organized in 1892 in a single-room structure on Ferrell Street in the Brookstown...
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601 Ramseur Street (1890s-1954 )
The original path of Elizabeth St. still persists south of East Main, roughly equidistant between Dillard and Fayetteville St., which is now where N. Elizabeth deposits its southbound traffic. The old route was a smaller, winding street that traveled north of E. Main through the current Liberty St. Apartments housing project, connecting with the original Elizabeth St. somewhere between Liberty and Holloway.
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702 Colonial St.
2013 2013 2013 2019 (TMLS)
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Hillandale Country Club
(Courtesy John Schelp) Around the turn of the 20th century, John Sprunt Hill acquired several hundred acres west of Durham (which he referred to as "that old Jones Land".) Like all of Durham's wealthiest men of the period, Hill established a gentleman's farm. Unlike most of them, he had a strong genuine interest in the economics of farming, and...
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Franklin House - 507 Yancey Street
Built as a rental house ~1901, this house was owner-occupied by the Franklin family for 50 years.
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602 South Duke - J.W. Blackwell House
James W. Blackwell, brother of WT Blackwell (of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco fame) built his house at the southwest corner of Lee (later Duke) Street and Yancey Street sometime between 1881 and 1887. The house first appears in the City Diretory of 1887, which included a map of prominent Durham locations. An early photograph, taken sometime in the...
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1014 Holloway St.
1012-1014 Holloway, 1970 (Durham County Library, North Carolina Collection, Urban Renewal Records - now online via DigitalNC) 1012-1014 Holloway, 02.26.11 Find this spot on a Google Map. 35.994316,-78.883093
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