Colonial Revival

The second Lincoln Hospital, 1301 Fayetteville St., 1924. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The second incarnation of Lincoln Hospital was located at 1301 Fayetteville St., replacing the earlier structure at the northwest corner of Proctor St. and Cozart St. The hospital had been established at that earlier site primarily...

Gulf Station at the southeast corner of Foster and West Geer, 1952 (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) Looking east from the west side of Foster Street, 08.03.61. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) Perhaps oddly, the small former Gulf Service Station on the southeast corner of West Geer and Foster St. is one of my favorite buildings in Durham. Built in the...

Thanks to Steve Rankin for most of today's information about the original Lakewood Methodist Church/later Masonic Hall The ‘Lakewood Park Methodist Church’ officially opened April 6, 1913, with Bishop John C. Kilgo (previous president of Trinity College) preaching the first service.

The Durham Coca-Cola bottling plant, originally located on the southeast corner of N. Church and Liberty Sts., relocated to the southeast corner of Milton Ave. (now Buchanan Blvd.) and West Main St. in 1930. A flat-roofed industrial wing extended off the western and southern facades of the building to accommodate machinery. In 1966, the bottling...

The Hall-Wynne funeral home business was established in 1903 by JS Hall - upon joining with GV Wynne in 1909, they built original building on Morris Street, which connected with their stables on East Chapel Hill St. In 1926, they built a new funeral home on West Main Street

510 Holloway, likely 1960s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The R. Pearcy Reade house was built around 1900 by Mr. and Mrs. William B. McGary, who purchased the land from Julian Carr. Originally the house, like the others around it, was Victorian / Queen Anne in style. In 1909, R. Pearcy Reade purchased the house from the McGarys. In the late 1920s, he...