East Main Street

Edgemont, 07.17.69

The William Guthrie house at 401 E. Main, looking north from E. Main ~1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The William Guthrie house was torn down in the late 1920s / early 1930s for a filling station: Nate Johnson's Gulf. Looking northeast, 1950s. (Courtesy St. Philip's Archives) The northeast corner of N. Queen and E. Main, location of the William...

Looking northeast from Church St. and East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Commercial development of the north side of the 200 block of East Main St. proceeded eastward from the commercial core. The western half of the block was developed by commercial structures by the 1890s, two of which are visible above. By the early 20th century, the...

Looking northeast from Church St. and East Main St., 1890s. 209 and 211 East Main Street are to the left. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Commercial development of the north side of the 200 block of East Main St. proceeded eastward from the commercial core. The western half of the block was developed by commercial structures by the 1890s, two of which are visible above.

205-207 E. Main Looking northeast from Church St. and East Main St., 1890s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Commercial development of the north side of the 200 block of East Main St. proceeded eastward from the commercial core. The western half of the block was developed by commercial structures by the 1890s, two of which are visible above. This photo...

One of Durham's most influential citizens, Julian Shakespeare Carr, a member of a successful Chapel Hill mercantile family built his estate on the southeast corner of East Main St. and South Dillard Street in 1870. He called it 'Waverly Honor'. (Courtesy Durham County Library) J.S. Carr would become involved in almost every venture that made Durham...

The buildings on the northeast corner of East Main St. and North Mangum St. were constructed sometime prior to 1891 and housed a variety of commercial establishments, the first being the T.J. Lambe's men's clothing store. Looking northeast from Mangum and Main, 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives) By 1937, the Harvey Cafeteria was located in the...

Looking north-northeast, 1905. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The building on the northeast corner of East Main St. and Church St. was built between 1898 and 1905. While it isn't clear if the building was built to house the local telephone exchange, by 1905, it contained the Herndon drugstore on the ground floor and the telephone exchange on the...

Looking west-northwest from Church St. and East Main St., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

When Julian Carr established the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 1 (above), and the Golden Belt Hosiery Mill, he developed two communities - Edgemont and Morning Glory. At the center of those two communities, he developed a park (seen in the foreground above) with a baseball diamond, gazebo, trees, etc. This park was the center of the community - a place...