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Chicken Hut Front Facade- 3019 Fayetteville

3019 Fayetteville St. - Chicken Hut

The Chicken Hut, originally The Chicken Box, was founded in 1958 by Claiborne Tapp Jr. and his sister Julia Tapp. The restaurant was first located on Apex Highway, serving out of a concession stand. Julia was inspired by the shape of the stand and coined the name "The Chicken Box." The Tapps then relocated to 410 S Roxoboro Street in 1961 where the...

W. Chapel Hill St. Underpass

West Chapel Hill Street was initially a grade crossing at the railroad tracks, with the business district surrounding Five Points on the east side, and the large houses of the West End on the west side. West Chapel Hill St., looking east from Willard towards Five Points, 1920s (Courtesy Durham County Library) West Chapel Hill St., looking west from...

Street Obelisk - Vickers And Jackson

Street obelisk markers like this one used to mark every corner in Durham; only a few remain.

Loaded Text

June 1989 (Courtesy Milo Pyne / George Pyne Collection) Per Julie Thomson, " Loaded Text was created in June 1989 by artists Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler in downtown Durham as part of a national conference on public art co-sponsored by the NC Arts Council and the Durham Arts Council." June 1989 (Courtesy Milo Pyne / George Pyne Collection) June...

Campus Drive / Free Expression Bridge

Long a free-wheeling canvas for the Duke student community, the "free expression bridge" was dominated by self-promotion by earnest interest groups and Greek groups - but occasionally attracted some artistic expression or humorous graffiti. In 2013, the state DOT replaced the actual bridge carrying Main Street over Campus Drive, including the...

Scarborough And Hargett (dillard Street)

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Street Obelisk - Moved From Franklin & N. Alston

03.30.2020, N. Levy There aren't very many of these formerly ubiquitous concrete street markers still around town - probably the best known is this one near where the freeway carved up West End, while there's apparently a remarkable collection of them creatively repurposed for fencing on this farm. The one shown here, however, may have the dubious...

600 Willard / Ramada Inn

The hotel/motelly goodness that inhabits the 3.71 acres of prime real estate at South Duke Street and the Freeway was likely built in the early 1970s, on land that had been cleared by urban renewal.

Oldham Towers

On the northeast corner of Main and Dillard streets is this imposing structure. Looking north, November 2018.

J.J. Henderson Housing Center

Looking northeast from Proctor and S. Duke - site of the old George Watts home / Durham Academy, 01.01.08 Eugene Morehead and George Watts were pioneers in the area that would become Morehead Hill when they built their houses on the western side of Lee (later Duke) St. in 1880. As the activity in the neighborhood increased, WT Blackwell sought to...