Grocery Store

122 South Mangum Street - Carrington's Bar

Durham's often-noted rough-around-the-edges reputation is nothing new - in the mid-to-late 19th century, the town was well known for its multiple saloons - the place where students from the University of North Carolina would come for some less-than-genteel entertainment (many of them would disembark from the train in Durham and head onward to Chapel Hill by other means.)

1102 Gann Street

04.08.69 - looking south along Alston Avenue from East Pettigrew. 01.05.67 - looking west/northwest 01.05.67 - same picture as above, uncropped wider view of the intersection of Glenn Street and Alston Avenue, looking west. 02.12.12 Demolished in 2015, presumably for the widening of Alston Avenue. 07.28.15 (G. Kueber)

1111 West Chapel Hill Street - Durham Co-op Market

07.26.15 (G. Kueber) 06.16.58 Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Asphalt goodness, ~2007 Find this spot on a Google Map. 35.996476,-78.916636

201 North Church St. - Hicks Building

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings along the west side of the 200 block of North Church St. are a very-well preserved block of early 20th century structures. The Hicks building, on the northwest corner of North Church and East Parrish, and its immediate 3 neighbors to the north were constructed around 1910. 209-211 North Church, at the northern end of the row, was constructed somewhat later, likely during the early 1920s.

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...

120 South Mangum Street

120 South Mangum Street, 01.66 Durham's often-noted rough-around-the-edges reputation is nothing new - in the mid-to-late 19th century, the town was well known for its multiple saloons - the place where students from the University of North Carolina would come for some less-than-genteel entertainment (many of them would disembark from the train in...

606 Burlington Ave. - Tiny Grocery

Tiny Grocery, 1971 (Durham County Library) Tiny Grocery, 1971 (Durham County Library) Tiny Grocery and 608 Burlington Ave.,1971 (Durham County Library) 2006

3413 Hope Valley Road

This building was part of a dairy farm owned by the Gibbs family during the first half of the 20th Century.

3409 Hope Valley Rd

Prior to this modern home being built around 2000, this land was the location of a dairy farm, and later an apartment complex in the 1950s.

517 Bacon Street

This commercial structure was once a neighborhood grocery and produce stand.