Funeral Home

Scarborough And Hargett (dillard Street)

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1108 Fayetteville Street

1108 Fayetteville, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Above, 1100 block of Fayetteville St., looking north from Umstead St., 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.) The west side of the 1100 block of Fayetteville St. was another primarily residential block of Fayetteville...

Hall-Wynne / Penny Furniture - Morris Street

Originally the Hall-Wynne funeral home, this 1900s building was a bowling alley before becoming Penny Furniture for many years.

Howerton-Bryan

I can't say that I find the Howerton-Bryan building on West Main, a colonial revival funeral home/chapel built around 1930, all that architecturally fascinating, but the Howerton-Bryan business holds, I believe, a singular distinction as the oldest continually operating business in Durham. Established in 1874 by RT Howerton at 316 North Mangum St., the firm eventually included the rest of the family and became Howerton and Sons.

419 Dowd Street

Hackney Block

The Hackney Block was built in 1902 adjacent to the pre-existing 202-204 North Corcoran Street, which may have been remodeled to match Hackney Block cornice line - or vice-versa. This view from the 1910s is looking east, across Corcoran Street, and shows the detailed cornice and finials. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The Hackney Block housed a restaurant, an undertaker, and a "carbonated water bottling works" in 1907.

522-524 East Pettigrew

522 East Pettigrew was originally the site of the Rex Theater, built in the late 1910s; 524 East Pettigrew appears to have been added a few years later (early-to-mid 1920s) as Albert Rosenberg's grocery, on the southwest corner of Henry Alley and East Pettigrew St. At the same time, 522 East Pettigrew became the Scarborough and Hargett funeral home...

401 Pine / South Roxboro - Wm. Amey Funeral Home

401 Pine Street, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) The house at 401 Pine St. was built by Sidney T. James, who owned and operated the Bull City Drug Store on Fayetteville St. In 1933, though, William A. Amey and Emanuel G. Spaulding (CC Spaulding's younger brother) had established the Carolina Funeral Home in the house.

1113 W. Main St. - Hall-Wynne

The Hall-Wynne funeral home business was established in 1903 by JS Hall - upon joining with GV Wynne in 1909, they built original building on Morris Street, which connected with their stables on East Chapel Hill St. In 1926, they built a new funeral home on West Main Street