East Durham

1980

457 S. Driver, 1980 When 457 South Driver Street was built is unclear to me; the addresses and parcels shift a lot over the course of the 20th century in this ~1/2 block.

410 South Driver, 1980 (Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1-story tri-gable house with German siding, 6-over-6 sash wndows, a double front door with arched upper glass panes, and a full front porch. Alterations include some vinyl siding and replacement metal porch...

One of the earliest businesses established in the Angier-Driver business district of East Durham, Crabtree Pharmacy, was started in 1904 by R.A. Crabtree, C.A. Crabtree, H.C. Barbee, and Viola Young. The Crabtree family, 1895 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The original building was a frame structure on the southeast...

2110-2114 Angier Ave., 1980 2110-2114 Angier Avenue was built between 1945 and 1950. 2110 initially housed Patsy's Beauty Shop and 2112 the Tip Top Supermarket. Patsy's would close within a few years, replaced by the Linthicum Radio and TV Service. The grocery would also go by the name "Tip Top Royal Blue Grocery" By the 1980s, the building housed William's Jeweler at 2114 and Waters Barber Shop at 2110.

Angier Avenue Baptist, along with Carr Methodist, traces its origins to the establishment of East Durham in the 1880s. In 1886, two years after the establishment of the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Company, RT Howerton of the First Baptist Church organized Sunday School classes in one of two original schoolhouses in East Durham - the Oak Grove...

312-316 South Driver, 1945 312-316 South Driver was built in the 1920s. By the early 1930s, it housed Ferguson Grocery at 312, DW Brown Dry Cleaners at 314, and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) at 316. (314 had a wing that extended from the rear of the building to the south, fronting on Angier Avenue - 2021 Angier.) By the mid-1940s, 312 had become the East Durham Beauty Shop. It was closed by 1950.

306-312 South Driver, 1945

300-302 South Driver - to the immediate right, looking south-southwest, 1980 300-302 South Driver was built in the early 1940s, and initially housed the "National 5 cent to $1 store." By 1950, prices had risen, and the name had changed to the "Marion's 5 cent to $5 store." By 1960, it was simply called "Marion's Stores."

212 South Driver Street, 10.02.10 (Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Side-gable house with gable end chimney that resembles an I-house, yet is 1 1/2 stories tall. The 4-over-4 sash windows are the only original exterior fabric that is visible. Alterations include...