Mill House

A top-down view diagram of a house, showing the layout of 1024 Angier Avenue.

1024 Angier Avenue

1024 Angier Avenue was once home to a mill house built by Durham Hosiery. The floor layout shows it was Durham Hosiery's "F" type house, with an "indoor" bathroom. Based on the source, it is likely this house was built before 1913, and demolished after 1979. “Inventory of Edgemont and East Durham Early Textile Mill Villages.” North Carolina Digital...

719 Bolton St.

719 Bolton Street prior to demolition in summer 2022 (N. Levy). Triple-A roofed house, seemingly outlined on Sanborn Maps by 1913, but dated in County records to 1925. In the summer of 1945, Odell and Polly E. King purchased the home from their employer, Erwin Cotton Mills Company, which was liquidating its vast stock of worker housing across the...

711 Bolton St.

Undated photo (c.1980s?) found prior to demolition. Triple-A roofed house, likely the latest of this group to be built or moved to this location, dated in County records to 1930. This home is on the site of the former West Durham Presbyterian Church, which became Blacknall Memorial and moved to a new facility on Perry Street in the mid-1920s. In...

738 Rutherford St.

Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with Hillsborough Road, this home had been occupied by the family of Theodore and Hosia Lewis Carden for a few years before the big selloff of Erwin Mills company housing in 1945. Unique among the surrounding mill...

807 N. Duke St.

Durham County Tax Administration photograph, September 2017 . From the 1982 Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory (p.171, entry for 803 North Duke two doors south, built at the same time): "During the first decade of this [20th] century, the Pearl Cotton Mills built a row of one-story frame houses along the west side of the 800 block of N...

910 Orient St.

(08.30.2018, N. Levy) 910 Orient is one of several remaining early 20th-century two-story houses built by the nearby Pearl Cotton Mills for its workers. The exact date of construction is difficult to determine, as city directories from the turn of the century describe residences in the area as "near" the factory or simply "Pearl Mills" with a house...

408 Carr St.

Looking west c.1880s, 408 Carr in the foreground just left and across the street from the back of Reams Warehouse. In the 1897 city directory, when maps indicate this house was numbered 204, the residents were listed as Mr. J. J. and Mrs. Ella R. Lumbley. (Sanborn Map Company, May 1898, Fragment of Sheet 7, available online at Library of Congress)...

921 Washington St.

1982 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides collection, Durham County Library)

919 Orient St.

September 1980 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides collection, Durham County Library) Like the house at 913 Orient, this is one of four "one-story bungalows built by the mill around 1924. These rectangular, single-family 'builder's houses' are three rooms deep with a low hipped roof, recessed full-facade porch, and three-bay main facade." (1984...

911 Washington St.

911 Washington St., 1982 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides collection, Durham County Library)