1123 Broad Esso Station

36.016959, -78.919477

1123
Broad Street
Durham
NC
Cross Street
West Club Boulevard
Year built
1920s
Year demolished
1980s
Neighborhood
Watts-Hillandale
Use
Gas Station
Building Type
Commercial
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1123 Broad, 1930s.
(Courtesy Joyce Tipton)

By the mid-1920s, the southwest corner of Broad and West Club had become a Standard Oil Co. Service Station. By 1941, this had become Dodson's filling station, which became an Esso station by 1948, and Dodson and Faucette Exxon by the 1960s.


Looking northwest, 1950s. The Esso service station is visible beyond 1131-1139 Broad St.
(Courtesy Barry Norman.)

I'm not sure when the service station went out of business/was torn down, but it appears to have been out of business by 1985. By the early 1990s, a Napa auto parts store had been built here, which has since become United Imports Auto Parts.


1123 Broad, 07.26.09

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 1:09pm

Was there a structure on the site between the demolition of the service station and the current auto parts building? I have a vague memory of a larger car service building there for a couple of years that never really made it (and was also demolished).

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 1:47am

heard that this was a superfund site and that they hauled ~20 foot depth of soil out of this site before building the current structure. does anyone know if this is true?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 10:00am

This was indeed a 'leak' site, and they did haul tons of soil away. I would have guessed 30 feet. I also heard conflicting tales about whether EPA or Exxon (or both) paid for the cleanup.

Submitted by robby (not verified) on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 2:09pm

The gas station photo is later. Note the NRA eagle in the window. This was the mid 1930s

Submitted by Gary (not verified) on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 2:17pm

Robby - you are rights. Thanks also to David Southern, who pointed this out to me via email; just haven't had a chance to fix it, but it is fixed now.

GK

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