South Roxboro Street

Welfare Department

"Public Welfare" was established in Durham in 1919, after passage of the Public Welfare Law by the NC General Assembly. Prior to that time, 'welfare' (and I'm not sure what it entirely consisted of at that point) was managed by the Salvation Army.

Durham Electric Lighting Co.

Looking southwest near the intersection of E. Peabody and S. Roxboro (actually closer to Pine St., which did not originally line up with Roxboro, but terminated at the tracks just a bit further east,) 1890. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

Scarborough And Hargett (dillard Street)

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St. Mark's Ame Zion (1922-1954)

---- Looking north from the present-day location of Rolling Hills, ~1910. The St. Mark Church is visible in the foreground. Other prominent structures visible in the distance include (left to right) the Trust Building, the Hotel Carrolina, First Baptist Church, Fire Station #1, Union Station, the original Durham County Courthouse, Trinity Methodist...

St. Mark's Ame Zion (1954-)

Looking north from the present-day location of Rolling Hills, ~1910. The St. Mark Church is visible in the foreground. Other prominent structures visible in the distance include (left to right) the Trust Building, the Hotel Carrolina, First Baptist Church, Fire Station #1, Union Station, the original Durham County Courthouse, Trinity Methodist, the...

403 Pine Street / South Roxboro St.

403 S. Roxboro, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The east side of the 400 block of Pine Street / South Roxboro St. was primarily a residential street, developed in the 1880s, initially as part of a primarily Jewish community of eastern European cigarette-rollers working in the tobacco factories. 400 block of Pine...

102 Masondale Avenue

Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, January 2018 Located at the west end of Masondale Avenue, near the intersection with South Roxboro Street, this one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house is five bays wide and three bays deep with a basement level at the rear, due to the slope of the lot. The house has a brick veneer...

1312 S. Roxboro St. / Pine St.

04.08.2010 This property was acquired in late 1924 by Alexander D. Durham, one of dozens of lots laid out south of the growing city center by the New Hope Realty Company. Both Alexander and his wife Jeanette (also born with the family name Durham) appear to have been born to former slaves living on either side of the Orange-Chatham County line...

Durham County Courthouse Annex / Social Services

The Durham County Social Services building was constructed in 1966 on the former site of the Arcade Theater, Hotel Lochmoor, and the Durham YMCA, which had been demolished in 1961. Looking southwest from Roxboro and East Main. In 1888, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was established in Durham, with James Southgate as its prinicipal...

YMCA - East Main St.

Looking southwest from Roxboro and East Main. The southwest corner of Roxoboro and East Main St. initially was the location of a home, although I don't know the original inhabitant. This house was still in place when the first courthouse was built immediately to its west. Looking southeast from East Main St., 1880s. The first county courthouse is...