Morehead Avenue

Eugene Morehead House (first)

Eugene Morehead's house, looking west-southwest from S. Duke St. - 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

Victor Bryant House

Victor Bryant House, late 1970s.

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...

Lucky Strike Service Station

Lucky Strike Service Station, 1966 (the back of the tobacco warehouses at 207 Morehead are visible at right) First listed in city directories in 1932, this filling and service station operated for roughly 35 years where Blackwell Street ended at Morehead Avenue, across from the southeastern corner of the American Tobacco factory complex. The first...

Maplewood Cemetery

(Courtesy University of North Carolina Library, North Carolina Collection) Maplewood Cemetery was established in 1872 by the purchase of an empty field of land to the west of the city limits. William H. Willard was paid $1500 for the land. Prior to establishment of the cemetery, people had been buried in the churchyards of their particular church...

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...

Greystone

(Duke RBMC) Greystone was built in 1911 for James Stagg. Norman Underwood was the contractor and CC Hook the architect; it's no surprise that this house strongly resembled B.N. Duke's Four Acres, built 5 blocks away by the same team during the same year, although it was smaller of the two. I was writing figuratively when I wrote earlier in the week...

J.J. Henderson Housing Center

Looking northeast from Proctor and S. Duke - site of the old George Watts home / Durham Academy, 01.01.08 Eugene Morehead and George Watts were pioneers in the area that would become Morehead Hill when they built their houses on the western side of Lee (later Duke) St. in 1880. As the activity in the neighborhood increased, WT Blackwell sought to...

518 Morehead Avenue / John F. Wily House

1903 (Colonial Southern Homes by Barrett, Charles W.) Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/colonialsouthern00barr) As Morehead Hill developed in the 1880s and 1890s, multiple large houses were built on the larger lots along Morehead Ave. and Vickers Ave. The houses of SF Tomlinson, John Wily, et al occupied this block, which was the 800 block...

1700 Merrimac St.