North Mangum Street

Oren W. Belvin House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) When Oren William Belvin (1868-1937) married Caroline (Carrie) Farthing in 1890, he was a young grocer working for her family's Durham wholesale grocery and dry goods company, Farthing and Duke. By 1892, the company was called Farthing and Belvin and had moved from Main Street to...

417-419 North Mangum

The residential portion of Mangum still extended south into the 400 block of Mangum when this picture was taken in the early 1920s. The houses are variably visible past the gas station, looking northwest from the intersection of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill St. With ~10 years, the commercial expansion of downtown had claimed these residences with a produce market and a (used) car dealership.

George And Blanche Mccracken House

(Courtesy J. Stuart McCracken) The George and Blanche McCracken House, which was a large Queen Anne structure similar to the Manning house still standing next door. Mrs. Gladys Culbreth was resident in 1958. Sometime between 1960 and 1980, the house was torn down. I don't know why. In 1987, New Morning Construction built several multitenant passive...

705-707 North Mangum Street

Labor Temple, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) In April 1941, the heirs of Mary A. Green - longtime resident of a home at this address who had bought the land from A. M. Rigsbee in the 1880s - sold this parcel to trustees of the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union, Local 585. By the next year, along with more than two dozen other 'locals' affiliated through...

William J. and Louisa Christian House

1981 From the 1984 National Register listing: Large two story L-shaped farmhouse style with weatherboard siding. Gable roof topped by two chimneys, one with elaborate brickwork, the other recently rebuilt. Two front facing gables, one closed, one open pediment; both with elaborate round motif within the pediment. Side gable has elaborate barge...

Downtown A&p - Morgan And East Chapel Hill

Looking northeast from North Magnum, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) A residential neighborhood during the 1890s-1910s, the intersection of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill was, by the 1920s, the 'border' between the growing downtown commercial area and the residential neighborhood. Looking northeast, with East Chapel Hill St. on the right and North...

105 W. Knox St.

(Courtesy Alex Maness) Text in italics from the writeup for the 2011 Preservation Durham House Tour: Richard. H. Wright II House (Whitehall Terrace), 1929 and 1940 105 West Knox Street George Watts Carr designed this two-story frame Colonial Revival style house in 1929 for Richard H. Wright II, [...] and his wife, Helen Scanlon, the daughter of the...

1213 N. Mangum St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (From the overflowing-with-information National Register Nomination:) Small weatherboarded house. Interesting steeped brick chimney. Front and side gables with return. Wrought iron front porch posts. One story . 08.17.13

Maynard Mangum House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) Tobacco warehouseman Maynard Mangum had this imposing two story clapboarded house constructed in 1914 by local contractor Lonnie Glosson. A similarity in the overall form, proportions and low hipped roof with deep bracketed eaves between this house and the Umstead-Rollins House next...

Stallings-Walter House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (Below in italics is from the 1985 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Around 1910, tobacco warehousemen Maynard Mangum and U.T. Umstead hired contractor Lonnie Glosson to construct this house which they sold to Carl Stallings, an executive in the...