North Mangum Street

421 North Mangum Street - Williams Pure Oil Service

(From "Images of America: Durham" by Stephen Massengill) Prior to the 1920s, 421 North Mangum Street was the site of the in-town TJ Rigsbee house (as opposed to his farm where Duke's West Campus now sits.) After TJ Rigsbee's death in 1917 and TJ Rigsbee, Jr.'s death in 1924, the house was sold, demolished, and the site redeveloped as a service...

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)

1212 N. Mangum St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architectural Slides collection, Durham County Library)

Gamble House

1307 North Mangum, 1930s Built on land that was originally part of the property of 1311 North Mangum Street, directly to the north, the International Style house at 1307 North Mangum Street was built by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gamble in 1935. Mrs. Gamble's father, Richard E. Dillard, who owned 1311 North Mangum, subdivided his property and gave the...

101-105 E. Main St.- Tj Lambe Co. / Harvey's Cafeteria

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) In 1936, Harvey's Cafeteria opened at 105 East Main...

First Baptist Church (1878-1927)

(Courtesy Duke Archives)

102-104 West Main St. - The Angier Corner

The intersection of Main St. and Mangum St. could be considered the center of Durham. Except for the rather odd Chapel Hill St., Main St. forms the dividing line between "North" and "South" streets, and Mangum St. the dividing line between "East" and "West" streets. It is at this intersection that Durham as a mercantile entity began, perhaps before...

213-215 North Mangum Street

213-215 N. Mangum, December 1963 (Courtesy Duke Archives) The First Baptist Church was the first church in Durham. The congregation formed in 1845 as the Rose of Sharon Baptist church, according to Boyd's history of Durham, "in the Piney Grove schoolhouse, 1 mile south of West Durham." In 1850, with population growing near "Durhamville" and...

City Hall (1977-) - 101 City Hall Place / Holloway St.

When it was completed, later-mayor Charlie Markham called the 1970s-era Durham City Hall building "utterly depressing - a pollutant to the visual environment of Durham." 10.30.11 Before this "pollutant" stood on the site, several commercial structures, an old apartment building, and the Planters' Warehouse stood on the site. Bittman Apts, with the...

907 N. Mangum St. A-D

907 N. Mangum, 05.05.13 Originally the site of the George and Blanche McCracken House, which was a large Queen Anne structure similar to the Manning house still standing (as of 2013) 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...