Auto Garage

Clark And Sorrell Garage / Triangle Biotechnology Center

(Courtesy Scientific Properties) The Clark & Sorrell garage had its origins in an auto repair shop at 214 E. Parrish St. opened by LeRoy Clark in the late 1910s. Donnie Sorrell had left Durham to attend business school in New York ~1920, and returned to Durham intending to establish a business. Clark was interested in expanding his repair shop, and the two partnered as Clark and Sorrell, Inc. on January 1, 1922.

Carpenter Truck Garage

1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The Carpenter Truck Garage was built in 1948 as an expansion of the Carpenter Motor Company dealership. A separate building from the 1910s-20s era original dealership, it is a fine example of an art deco facade with steel frame multilite windows along both sides of the building. As of 2013 the building was threatened...

106 North Elizabeth Street

306 Poplar St.

Grand Central Garage

Drawing of the "Grand Central Garage" on East Chapel Hill St., 1919 The Washington Duke Hotel was built in 1924. The automobile-oriented building on Chapel Hill Street (to the east of the corner building) likely provided some off-street parking for the hotel as well as gasoline.

417-419 Foster St.

Looking west on Hunt St., 01.11.58 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) As with most of the structures on Foster St., the building at 417-419 was built to house auto-related businesses. A series of such businesses have utilized the building through its entire history; it appears to be the last such business still extant on Foster.