Photography Studio

410 W. Geer St.

Originally the Hometown Sales and Service - a dealership for Kaiser Frazer automobiles, 410 W. Geer has housed the predecessor to Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, the North Carolina Fund, and now is the Trotter building - an event center and retail space.

1710 Fayetteville St - Stanback Studios

1710 Fayetteville Street in 2017. Source: Durham County Tax Administration. Thought to have been built around 1916, the first known residents and owners of this house were Hattie McMillan and her son, Walter, in the early 1920s. After switching hands and residents in the 1930s, the home was purchased by Charles Rudolph Stanback and his wife Geneva...

124 East Main

Longtime home to the City Sandwich Shop, 124 East Main had a major facade change in 1947

205 West Main Street / Holladay Studio

205 West Main St., 1905 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham) One of my favorite small buildings in Durham-past is 205 West Main Street, due to its very unusual design - I'm not sure I've seen another building with quite such modern lines built during the 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript...

506-510 East Pettigrew

508-510 East Pettigrew, looking southeast, July 1965. The railroad siding in the foreground ran down Branch Place alongside the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 2. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The building at 506-510 E. Pettigrew was built in the early 1930s, initially housing Israel Gordon's Fish Market on the corner (506)...