Toy Store

(Courtesy Duke Archives) The 400 block of East Chapel Hill Street was primarily transformed from a residential into a commercial street in the 1920s. The above picture shows 401, 405, 407, and 415 had been built by 1924. Looking east down East Chapel Hill, 1927 (Courtesy Durham County Library) By the 1940s, the block was built out. Looking east...

207 West Main St., 1905 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham) Evidently built by Richard H. Wright in 1895, 207 West Main was the first home to the Citizens Bank, which evolved from the Morehead Bank. The bank was located here until 1908, when it moved to its own new building at 105 West Main St.

The area of East Chapel Hill St. and Rigsbee Avenue was primarily filled with residential and small frame structures up until the early 1920s, when masonry commercial structure supplanted the earlier uses. 400 Block of East Chapel Hill St., looking east from Rigsbee Ave., 1900. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Wyatt Dixon...