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Walltown School, looking southeast from West Club Blvd., 1953 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Per the historic inventory, the Walltown Graded School was built in 1919 per the design of Durham architectural firm Linthicum and Linthicum on the corner of North Road (West Club Blvd.) and 3rd Street (Onslow St.) One of Durham's Rosenwald funded...

entire house was not converted to apts. only the second floor was converted. Mr. Erwin Sr. (wife predeceased him) lived on the maiin floor with his daughter (Mrs. Mary Michie) and granddaughter until his death. His daughter continued to live there until the property was sold about 1970 with the Poe-Roberts house. another daughter lived in the little house behind the big house also until this time.

Erwin Auditorium, 1920s. (Courtesy Durham County Library - North Carolina Collection) Built in 1922 by Erwin Cotton Mills, the Renaissance Revival, 2 1/2 story Erwin Auditorium was designed by Hill C. Linthicum to provide all-purpose recreational space for the community. The construction was not entirely benevolent, as William Erwin used money that would have otherwise been distributed to workers as bonuses to construct the building.

Southside School, undated (William Franklin Warren Collection, Durham County LIbrary) Southside School was built in 1921, replacing an earlier "West Durham School" that had been located at Swift Ave. and Thaxton Sts. Plan of Southside School (Courtesy Old West Durham) I don't have much information about what the school was like, students'...

White Rock Baptist Church figures in the earliest origins of Hayti, organized in 1866 in the home of Mrs. Margaret Faucette, following a series of house-to-house prayer meetings. These meetings became services conducted by the Reverend Zuck Horton. Following his pastorate, Reverend Samuel Hunt, the second pastor, held services for what was then known as the "First Baptist Church" in a cotton gin on Elm Street and in a warehouse on Peabody Street.

Looking east, 1964. The John M. Manning house on Dillard St. was likely built during the late 1890s. Manning was born in 1857 and went to college at UNC, medical school at UVA, and did his residency at Bellevue. He initially moved back to Pittsboro, but came to Durham in 1888 to practice medicine. The three Manning brothers were rather remarkable...

Looking southwest from E. Pettigrew and Pine (S. Roxboro) (Courtesy Duke Archives) While we think of a relatively small number of early tobacco companies in Durham these days, there were many early companies, most of which fell by the wayside, one by one, as Blackwell and Duke became the predominant players. The Lyon Tobacco Company - "Pride of Durham" was one of those early companies.

Looking southwest from Roxboro and East Main. The southwest corner of Roxoboro and East Main St. initially was the location of a home, although I don't know the original inhabitant. This house was still in place when the first courthouse was built immediately to its west. Looking southeast from East Main St., 1880s. The first county courthouse is...

The Brodie L Duke Building was designed by Hill C. Linthicum and built in 1910; at 5 stories, it was the second tallest structure in Durham at the time. A dramatic fire in 1914 that broke out in the Brodie Duke Building destroyed much of the block (all except the easternmost two storefronts): (Courtesy Durham County Library) Destroyed structures...