2005 Preservation Durham Old Durham Tour
2005 Preservation Durham Old Durham Tour
Submitted by gary on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 8:25amRECENTLY RENOVATED DOWNTOWN SPACES
In the guidebook for HPSD's 2001 tour, "Living it Up Downtown," Tom Miller wrote, "It is not premature to declare that downtown Durham has been saved." That year, the Baldwin building was an empty shell - today, it is filled with a dozen loft apartments. The previous year, the HPSD tour had explored Durham's Tobacco Heritage. Tour-goers were led through the deserted courtyard at American Tobacco, surrounded by dilapidated buildings with broken windows and sagging roofs. Today, the American Tobacco Historic District is home to a growing list of tenants whose modern, high-tech offices overlook a lush green lawn where cracked pavement used to be. It seems Tom was right! Our tour this year features these sites and many more that prove the new vitality of Downtown Durham.
O'BRIEN BUILDING
THE IMPERIAL TOBACCO COMPANY
204-212 RIGSBEE AVE.
209 NORTH CHURCH ST.
107-109 WEST MAIN STREET / BALDWIN'S
118 W. PARRISH ST. / CHRISTIAN-HARWARD
FIRST NATIONAL BANK / MAIN AND CORCORAN - SE
TEMPLE BUILDING
339-341 WEST MAIN STREET
BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBACCO / AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.
FRANKLIN HOUSE - 507 YANCEY STREET
Built as a rental house ~1901, this house was owner-occupied by the Franklin family for 50 years.
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