West Knox Street

Two people outside the house. Perhaps Bud and Thelma Davis

Tinnin-Davis House

Tinnin-Davis House, 1921 Ernest Tinnin was a mill hand at Erwin Cotton Mill and worked in the weave room at Mill No. 4 after it opened in 1925. When the house was built, it had wood siding and the front door faced C Street (now called Knox St). Ten years later, they sold the property to the Davises and moved to 911 Carolina, presumably to save...

406 W. Knox St.

406 West Knox, 08.06.2020 (N. Levy). According to property records, this home was constructed in 1940.

1435 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy) 08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

105 W. Knox St.

(Courtesy Alex Maness) Text in italics from the writeup for the 2011 Preservation Durham House Tour: Richard. H. Wright II House (Whitehall Terrace), 1929 and 1940 105 West Knox Street George Watts Carr designed this two-story frame Colonial Revival style house in 1929 for Richard H. Wright II, [...] and his wife, Helen Scanlon, the daughter of the...

713 W. Knox St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first listed owner of this house in the 1949 city directory was Leonard W. Cheatham, Jr. It seems...

711 W. Knox St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first listed owner of this house in the 1949 city directory appears to have been a building...

1308 Ruffin St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been a postal carrier - Joseph W...

709 W. Knox St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Though Durham County tax records date this house to 1948, it appears this last structure on the south side of Knox Street closest to South Ellerbe Creek was not built until the early or mid-1950s. Left - fragment Durham County Register of...

Fire Station #2 (ninth Street)

By the 1950s, the growth of population westward, the envelopment of West Durham into the City of Durham, and the scaling of fire equipment necessitated a new fire station for Company #2, which had been located amongst the Liggett Warehouses on West Main St. since 1906 The Ninth Street property was purchased by the City from the heirs of Mrs. Ida...

George F. Hackney House

The Hackney House is representative of the work of one of Durham's important residential architects and it retains its original appearance and details.