Bakery

127-129 East Main Street

Looking west-northwest from Church St. and East Main St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The 100 block of East Main St. was part of the central core of downtown that developed during the 1880s, with early frame structures transitioning to brick by 1890. Clothing and drugstores were common tenants, and another of Durham's early newspapers, the...

512-516 East Pettigrew

Looking southwest, ~1970. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Looking east down the south side of East Pettigrew St., ~1970. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

414 East Pettigrew

414-416 East Pettigrew appears to have been built by ~1920, and remodeled by the late 1920s. 414 initially housed the Liberty Bakery, and 416 the Self-Serve Grocery. By the late 1920s, the Liberty Cafe had been replaced by Red Bird Ice Cream. In the 1930s, the 414 housed Midway Lunch, and 416 housed John Trohatos' restaurant. By the 1940s, 414 housed Wilson's Sport Shop (a pool hall) and 416 the Wonderland Barber Shop and Beauty Shop.

Paschall's Bakery / Jm Mathes

Looking west, 1920s (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The Paschall’s Bakery building was erected in 1924 on the southwest corner of Duke and Morgan Streets (119-121 Duke Street). Owned and operated by Mallie J. and Louise W. Paschall, Paschall’s Bakery was a descendant of Mallie’s first bakery, the Star Bakery, which was located...

Davis Baking Company

Looking north, 1978 (Courtesy Robby Delius) The Davis Baking Company building was originally built in the late 1920s by Cary and Charlie Crutchfield, who operated a dairy in southwest Durham. A gas station was constructed soon thereafter on the corner, and the two-story building was occupied by the Lakewood Barber Shop. In the 1940s, the Davis...

762-764 Ninth

Looking southeast, 1940s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 762-764 Ninth St., the bookend to the two-story structures at the Perry St. end of the Ninth St. commercial strip, appears to have been built in the late 1920s. It initially housed Whitmore’s Bakery at 762 and Mack’s Food Shop at 764. Upstairs tenants appear to...

111 West Parrish Street

Aside from the previously featured Nancy Grocery and 119-121 N Mangum (the two ends of the block) the south side of the 100 block of W. Parrish St. seems to have been rarely photographed. The Parrish St. side of the block extending through to W. Main St. was also badly damaged in the fire of 1914. Looking west, 1914; the south side of the street is...

1001 West Chapel Hill St.

1001 West Chapel Hill - the new location of the Rolling Pin Bake Shop circa 1968 after their previous location was urban renewalized. (Photo courtesy Durham County Library) The West End looking southwest from West Chapel Hill and Buchanan, 1978 (Durham Architectural Inventory) The primary neighborhood business district of West End at Buchanan Blvd...

Phillips 66 / Broad Street Diner / Mad Hatter

---- Bird's Eye view looking west the Erwin Field at Broad and West Main Streets, ~1940. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) One of the early community assets created by the Erwin Cotton Mills and its principal, William Erwin, was the Erwin field, which hosted the Erwin Auditorium baseball team. Looking east from 8th...

708 Fayetteville

Looking southwest at the 700 block of Fayetteville St., 1950s. (Courtesy The Herald Sun)