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Liggett And Myers New Cigarette Factory

--- The site just to the west of the first Duke Factory was Washington Duke's first in-town home. (Durham Historic Inventory) In 1884, Duke built a new brick factory, just to the east of his house and original factory. In 1888, he built a new house, which he called Fairview. Looking west, with the old factory building to the right. The steeple of...

Duke Factory (old Cigarette Factory)

The Duke Cigarette Factory was built in 1884 to replace the wooden structure that Washington Duke constructed just to the west of the site in 1874. The original wood frame tobacco factory. Taken from approximately present-day West Chapel Hill Street (west of the railroad tracks) looking north. Washington Duke's original house is on the left. (From...

Brodie Duke Warehouse

Brodie Duke Warehouse, 1930s (This particular crop Courtesy the Main Street project at UNC, which pulled it from Endangered Durham without attribution; they did credit the original source, where I scanned the photo. That was done with the kind permission of the Duke Rare Book and Manuscript collection.) Looking northwest, 1925. The Brodie Duke...

Liggett Office Building

---------- Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The block currently encircled by North Duke, West Main, Morgan, and Fuller Sts. originally held what appears to have been a tobacco field and wood frame structures of the...

Flowers Building - Liggett And Myers

The Flowers Building is named for William Washington Flowers, who joined L&M in 1911 and became its chairman in 1939. 1944, on the left, Flowers in the foreground (with the "Chesterfields Satisfy" bridge) and the Cooper Building in the background.

White Warehouse - 600 North Duke

Carmichael Warehouse under construction in 1926, shot from the top of the Hicks warehouse looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Bullington Warehouse - 500 North Duke

Carmichael Warehouse under construction in 1926, shot from the top of the Hicks warehouse looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Liggett And Myers Powerhouse

L & M Powerhouse, 1940 L & M Powerhouse / looking west on Fernway, 1940 1971 (Courtesy Karl Stauber) Powerhouse, 05.30.11 Powerhouse and Chesterfield water tower, but no smokestacks, 05.30.11

O'brien Building

O'Brien Building, 1910. Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. On either side, the stepped, projecting vent chimneys of Cobb and O'Brien are visible. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) Cobb on the left and O'Brien on the right, with the original Fire Station...

Cobb Building

Cobb Building, 1910 Cobb (left) and O'Brien (right) with the original Fire Station #2 between the buildings. Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. On either side, the stepped, projecting vent chimneys of Cobb and O'Brien are visible. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript...