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Colonial Stores had been located at 1106 and 1108 Broad prior to building a new supermarket to the north of these structures in 1953. Looking south on Broad Street at the construction site, 10.24.53 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Below, the grand opening, looking northeast. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) By the early 1960s, Colonial...

Shell Filling Station, 12.07.56 (Herald-Sun) Looking northeast from West Chapel Hill St. at the approximate location of Yates Ave. The line of the street would have extended towards the billboard from West Chapel Hill. 02.02.08. (G. Kueber)

---- (Courtesy Herald-Sun) Bird's Eye view looking west the Erwin Field at Broad and West Main Streets, ~1940. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) One of the early community assets created by the Erwin Cotton Mills and its principal, William Erwin, was the Erwin field, which hosted the Erwin Auditorium baseball team...

El Toro Baseball Field, circa 1930. The Jack Tar/Washington Duke Hotel is in the left background. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) Despite the preeminence of basketball in North Carolina today, baseball seems to be far more tightly woven into Durham's DNA.

319-321 West Pettigrew, looking southwest, 1965 (Courtesy Durham County Library) West Pettigrew Street, neé Railroad St., began as a residential street situated between the Blackwell Factory and the Duke Factory Looking west from the top of the Blackwell Factory, mid-1880s. Carr St. and an early Blackwell's Durham Tobacco building are in the...

The east side of the 300 block of Roxboro consisted of apartment houses - as did much of the first few blocks of Roxboro north of Main St. 302 N. Roxboro, on the northeast corner of Roxboro and Liberty, 1963. 304 N. Roxboro, 1963 306 N. Roxboro, 1963. With the seemingly-ubiquitous-during-the-60s corner service station close at hand. 302 N. Holloway...

(Photo courtesy Durham County Library) The southeast corner of N. Mangum and East Chapel Hill contained several two- and three-story commercial structures, all built in the late 1910s-early 1920s The southeast corner is to the right in this photo, looking northeast from N. Manguma and East Chapel Hill, 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The view north...

The northernmost extent of McMannen Street (now South Mangum St.) featured a mixture of residential and industrial uses, including the large freight railroad depot between Vivian and Pettigrew Sts., the Austin Heaton/Peerless flour company, and, east of McMannen, along Pettigrew, a collection of very early residential structures. Above, the view...

505 South Duke Street - 1970s. The urban renewal 'study area' in Durham was quite large, encompassing essentially the entirety of downtown. While structures taken by urban renewal within the area of the current 'Loop' were selective, few structures were spared in the remainder of the 'study area.' On the western side of downtown, Duke St...

Above, Immaculate Conception, 1957 -- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church was established in its current location on Chapel Hill Street in 1905, on land donated by William T. O'Brien, the mechanic who made the Bonsack cigarette machine work for J.B. Duke, thereby creating the competitive advantage that allowed the astronomical growth of the...