Plumbing Company

09.10.11 Built as the used car sales office for the Uzzle Cadillac dealership across the street, this building is certainly downtown Durham's only pagoda. Originally "on stilts," the ground level was later filled in and used by a realty company. Bobby Inscoe Realty was one former occupant. It's now owned by Acme Plumbing, located next door. This...

Spicer Motor Company co-owners Claude "Tiny" Pendergraph (left) and Ed Spicer (right) - Courtesy of Pendergraph Family Collection. From Doug Pendergraph: "2816 North Roxboro in Braggtown once housed Spicer Motor Company. Ed Spicer and my Grandfather Claude "Tiny" Pendergraph (pictured above) were good friends during and after the Second World War...

The building at 226 West Morgan St. was built sometime in the mid-1920s, replacing earlier tobacco prizery buildings. 226 West Morgan was a plumbing supply wholesaler in 1937. 226 West Morgan St. looking northeast from Morgan and Foster. 226 West Morgan St. looking northwest from Morgan and Holland.

(December 2017, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: Located on a slight rise with a brick retaining wall and brick steps at the sidewalk, the one-story, side-gabled house is four bays wide and double-pile. The house has replacement windows and a replacement one-light-over-two-panel door...

January 2018, photo by Cheri Szcodronski From the National Register Historic District application: 415 Cecil Street – Robert E. and Catherine B. Page House – c. 1955 Contributing Building This one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house has a distinctive stone veneer on the façade only. The house is five bays wide and double-pile with a concrete block...

326 West Geer, soon after construction in October 1949 326 West Geer housed Paschall Brothers Plumbing Company until the 1970s, when it housed Acme Plumbing Company. As of 2008, it houses Common Ground, a "Green Building Center". Looking northwest from West Geer, 07.12.08 (Photo by Gary Kueber) From the NR listing in italics below: The one-story...

211-215 Broadway, February 1966 (DCL) 11.02.13 (DC tax office)

This small space housed the West Durham Plumbing Company throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but has been a snackshop as of late.

219-225 Foster Street