North Mangum Street

Nw Corner - N. Mangum & E. Chapel Hill

The building on the northwest corner of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill St. was under construction when the below picture was taken in 1924. The building was built by OG Wilson. Looking northeast (Courtesy Duke Archives) The following aerial shows the completed corner building in 1930. A hauling business was an early tenant of the building...

North Mangum St. Bus Station

--- Looking north at the intersection of N. Mangum St. and Rigsbee Ave. and SE Rochelle's motorcycle club, ~1910. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The northeast portion of what we now consider 'downtown' was a primarily residential area well into the early 20th century, gradually supplanted by commercial structures during the 1920s and onward...

Fire Station #1 (first)

The home of the "Golden Belt Hose Company", a primarily volunteer firefighting squad, was constructed at the intersection of Holloway and Mangum Streets in 1891 on land adjacent to the E.J. Parrish tobacco warehouse. It was designed by Samuel L. Leary, had an electric alarm system, and an 829 pound bell in its tower, cast in Baltimore.

Second Parrish Warehouse

Looking northeast from the corner of Parrish St. and N. Mangum St., 1890s (Courtesy Duke Archives) (Courtesy Duke Archives) After his first warehouse on the south side of the 100 block of E. Parrish St. burned in the 1880s, EJ Parrish built a second warehouse that eventually extended most of the length of the block, although it was set back from...

Sw Corner Mangum And Parrish (109-119 N Mangum)

The building on the southwest corner of N. Mangum and W. Parrish was likely built during the 1910s, and contained a number of commercial storefronts on the N. Mangum St. side of the building. Below, the view from W. Parrish St., looking east, 1940s.

Ej Parrish / Duke Power Building

In 1879 EJ Parrish (the first man to auction tobacco in Durham) built a tobacco warehouse on the southeast corner of Mangum St. and the eponymous Parrish St. (Courtesy Durham County Library) No records exist of the exact location of the warehouse, but I do know that it was on the "western portion of the site", which would imply that the above view...

822 North Mangum St.

The 800 block of North Mangum Street, between Little Five Points and the renovated houses north of Geer Street, continues to experience significant transition. The busy intersection of Geer St. and Mangum St., with a large auto repair shop, forms a significant barrier between sections of the neighborhood. The 800 block retains more houses than the...

Little Five Points

The neighborhood business district at the intersection of Cleveland, Mangum, and Corporation streets is known as "Little Five Points". It once served the communities of "North Durham" (now Old North Durham), Cleveland Street, and the neighborhoods extending west towards the old ballpark and east to Roxboro. Little Five Points, early 20th Century (Courtesy Duke Archives)