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702 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking north at the intersection of Morehead and Willard, ~1950 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The 600 and 700 blocks of Willard were a continuous block, the numbering divided by the intersection with Warren St. on the east side of the street. The southern end of...

A bounce back to the east side of town today for a shout-out to my friends in the Cleveland-Holloway neighborhood who temporarily averted the demolition of a great little Craftsman house is their neighborhood, 407 Ottawa St. 407 Ottawa, 1970s (Courtesy NC State Historic Preservation Office) Much of Cleveland-Holloway away from the main streets was...

The 500 block of Willard Street ran between Jackson St. and Yancey St., which terminated at Willard. 520 Willard, 1965. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) These houses were torn down by the city using Federal urban renewal funds (2/3) and the money of the good taxpayers of Durham (1/3).

517 Willard, 1965 (Courtesy Durham County Library) Looking northeast, 1948 (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 500 and 600 blocks of Willard Street extended from Jackson to the 'point' with Warren St., divided by Yancey Street on the west side of the street. (Yancey didn't extend east of Willard.) These houses were torn down in 1967 by the city using urban...

530 Warren, 1965 (Courtesy Durham County Library) 607 Willard, 1965 (Courtesy Durham County Library) The long western side of the 500 block of Warren St. (because Yancey went no further east than Willard) stretched between Willard and Jackson Streets. 500 block of Willard, looking northwest, ~1950. 530 Warren / 607 Willard is visible just beyond...

527 Warren, 1965 - on the corner of Warren and Portland Avenue. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Warren Street ran just to the west of the old Morhead School, between Jackson Street and Willard Street, which it met at an acute angle. The eastern side of the street consisted of relatively few houses, given the presence of the Morehead School to the...

403 West Pettigrew Street, 1940s ---- The change in relation of the houses in the 400 block of West Pettigrew to the street level gives a significnant sense of how far the grade was dropped at West Chapel Hill St. and West Pettigrew when the Chapel Hill St. underpass was created in the 1920s. Looking west on West Chapel Hill St. from the east side...

416 Ashton Place (Courtesy Durham County Library) (Courtesy Duke Archives) Jackson Street initially ran parallel to West Chapel Hill St. before making a turn in its final block to meet West Pettigrew on a perpendicular. The continuation of the street along the parallel to West Pettigrew Street was called Dandy Street. By the early 20th century...

09.09.58 (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The north side of the 300 block of Jackson was a short block, running between Willard and Ashton Place. 304 Jackson St., 1960s. (Courtesy Durham County Library) This house was taken down in 1967 and became the parking lot for the Downtowner Motel. It is in the process of becoming a parking lot for the bus station...

203 Jackson (Courtesy Durham County Library) The 200 block and 300 block of Jackson St. were essentially a single block, the numbering change occurring where Ashton Place met, but did not cross Jackson at mid-block. It ran from Willard St. on the west side to Warren St. on the east, immediately adjacent to the Morehead School in the next block...