North Roxboro Street

2011 (The information below in italics is from the Historic Preservation Society of Durham Plaque Application for the Jesse and Martha J. Johnson House) The Durham County Landowners of 1886 shows the Geer family owning large amounts of land. The family name Massey is listed as well. Although the L. S. Massey referenced in the deed and discussed...

1981 Renovated but highly modified by TROSA in ~2002.

1999

1999 10.18.2013 (Photo by Gary Kueber)

1999

1981

A wonderful little neighborhood grocery building - home to many grocers in the East End over the years.

One of the most finely detailed Georgian Revival style houses in the Duke Park neighborhood is this two story brick dwelling built for Laura Duke in 1926 when the style was at the height of its popularity. Characteristic Georgian Revival style features include the five bay, double pile center hall plan; the gable roof dormers with pilasters flanking the arched windows; the denticulated cornice; and the entrance flanked by Doric columns and pilasters. An uncommon feature of the brick veneered house is the gambrel roofline.

From the Durham Herald-Sun, 02/04/12 DURHAM – Affectionately called Freedom House, the house at 1123 N. Roxboro St. owned by the late Floyd B. McKissick Sr. and his wife, the late Evelyn McKissick, was home to more than just the McKissick family in the 1950s and ’60s, but the Durham civil rights movement, too. Thanks to a Preservation Durham...

02.66 1939 CD: Charles A. Dackis - Durham Shoe Shine and Hat Cleaning Parlor, and wife Pashalia 1947 CD: Mrs. Annie Davies (widow, Nicholas)