Hargrove Street

1002 North St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1001 Glendale

1956 A few years ago, Bob Blake was kind enough to let me scan a bunch of the photos he took, primarily in the 1950s, which he used for his paintings. He said that he thought this store was located on Glendale Ave., but I can't find footprints resembling this on a Sanborn map. Any ideas?

211 Hargrove St.

June 1982 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides collection, Durham County Library)

Bay-Hargrove Park

1981 I don't know when the small park at the corner of Bay and Hargrove streets was created; the 1950 Sanborn map shows five houses on the future park site. Interestingly, some of the older-appearing houses across Bay Street also don't appear to be present on that map, making me wonder if at least 1-2 might have been moved. As the photograph above...