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Mill Park Pure Oil Gas Station

Mill Park service station, ~1950. (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) As I mentioned when discussing the Pure Oil Station at Morgan and N. Mangum, a sudden explosion of gas stations in residential neighborhoods during the 1920s met some resistance from neighbors - perhaps a bit aghast that every house on a corner was being torn down for another gas station.

127-129 East Main Street

Looking west-northwest from Church St. and East Main St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The 100 block of East Main St. was part of the central core of downtown that developed during the 1880s, with early frame structures transitioning to brick by 1890. Clothing and drugstores were common tenants, and another of Durham's early newspapers, the...

Mattie M. And Wallace W. Umphlette House

One ½-story side-gabled Tudor Cottage with clipped gables, a terra-cotta tile roof, stuccoed walls, and 9-over-1 sash windows. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Wallace W. Umplette, a traveling salesman, was the occupant in 1930.

Irma M. And Cecil B. Thompson House

1 ½-story front-gable Tudor Cottage with stucco walls, 9-over-1 sash windows, and an interior chimney. The main entrance is on the left side between stuccoed buttresses. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Cecil B. Thompson, department manager at Goodrich Silvertown Inc., was the occupant in 1930.

406 Formosa Avenue

Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, December 2017 Among the most intact and finely detailed houses in the district, this one-story, hip-roofed Period Cottage is three bays wide with a projecting, clipped-front-gabled bay on the right (west) end of the façade. The house has a stuccoed exterior, six-over-one wood...

402 Morgan Street

1940s (William Franklin Warren Collection, Durham County Library) The north side of the 400 block of Morgan (between Morris and Roney) and the north side of the 300 block of Morgan (between Roney and Foster) contained primarily small, commercial structures. Morgan St., even more so than Chapel Hill St., contained fewer retail establishments and...

600 Willard / Ramada Inn

The hotel/motelly goodness that inhabits the 3.71 acres of prime real estate at South Duke Street and the Freeway was likely built in the early 1970s, on land that had been cleared by urban renewal.

1306 South Duke Street / University Drive

1306 South Duke St., 1937 (Courtesy Gladys Glenn) 1304 and 1306 South Duke Street. (Courtesy Gladys Glenn) Gladys Glenn was kind enough to convey the history of the Forest Inn, which her parents ran during the 1930s, and her house next door at 1306 South Duke St. When not running the restaurant, her father was a teacher at East Durham Junior High...

2217 West Club Blvd.

J. T. Kerr Jr. House. 1 1/2-story stuccoed English Cottage with a side gable roof with clipped gables, interior and front chimneys, exposed rafter tails and brackets, and 4-over-1 Craftsman windows. A bracketed arched hood tops the original paneled door and the engaged side porch with ladder posts has French doors. Another set of French doors open...

George Lyon House

~1903 (Colonial Southern Homes by Barrett, Charles W.) Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/colonialsouthern00barr The Lyon-Williams house was built in 1902-03 for George L. Lyon. The Saturday, March 22, 1902, Charlotte Observer reported: "Mr. George L. Lyon has given the contract for the erection of a beautiful home on Morehead avenue to Mr...