East Geer Street

Gorman Baptist Church (painted 1966)

Gorman Baptist Church

First established as Piney Grove Baptist Church on then Fish Dam Rd (now Hamlin Rd) in 1894 on a plot owned by Luico Nichols. this religious community has endured many social changes. Excuse this article's incompletion, the place-holder draft appears to have self-published on 5/31 after a period of inactivity. I have yet to complete the final draft...

Lake Ridge Aero Park

Not everyone is aware that there is an airport subdivision in eastern Durham county; Lake Ridge Airport, on the shore of Falls Lake near the Durham County line is Durham County's own little airport - no having to share it with the "R" next door. Residences have their backyards facing on the airstrip - I presume if you enjoy door-to-door convenience with your small plane, this is ideal. 10.10.10

303 E. Geer St.

04.23.2020, L. Constantine Like much of the surrounding area, this property was part of the farm of Jesse B. Geer until his death in 1881. Fragment of the Lewis Blount map of late 1860s Durham, "drawn from memory entirely" in 1923. Likewise shown on the map fragment above, Jesse Geer's son Frederick already had an established farm and lands of his...

Cleveland Bragg House

Both the three black-and-white photos and the text in italics are from the Durham County Historic Architecture Inventory (NE-8 and NE-9). Either fertilizer magnate S. T. Morgan or William D. Holloway may have been the first owner of Durham County’s fanciest Triple-A I-house. Cleveland Bragg, a prosperous tobacco farmer with whom the house is...

1201 North Roxboro Street

1201 North Roxboro, 03.28.11 (Photo by Gary Kueber) 1201 North Roxboro, rear, 03.28.11 (Photo by Gary Kueber) This house was purchased by Reinvestment Partners in 2011 and renovated as office space. The rear wing visible in the second picture above was removed and replaced. 10.18.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber) UPDATED: February 2019 When local nonprofit...

110 East Geer Street

One of Durham's great 1920s-1930s apartment buildings

Ne Corner - North Mangum And East Geer

I have no picture of the frame house that stood on the northeast corner of North Mangum and West Geer Streets prior to the 1930s - by 1937, it had been replaced with a simple 'filling station' in the common style of the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1950s, this station had been expanded to include garage bays to the rear. Looking northeast, 1952 (Courtesy Wayne Henderson)

Hartman's Steak House

Hartman's, 1953. (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Starlite Drive-In

The Starlite drive-in theater opened in the mid-1940's and operated until ~1961, when it was abandoned. Abandoned Starlite Theater, mid-1960s Abandoned Starlite Theater, mid-1960s Abandoned Starlite Theater, mid-1960s The Starlite drive-in theater opened in the mid-1940's and operated until ~1961, when it was abandoned. Abandoned Starlite Theater...

1130 N. Roxboro St.

1981 Renovated but highly modified by TROSA in ~2002.