North Mangum Street

811, 813, 815 North Mangum

809 N. Mangum, 1980

I used to subscribe to "Old House Journal," and they had a feature in the back called "Remuddled." I always wanted to submit this house, with its exquisitely photosensitive renovation. 08.03.11

507 North Mangum, on the left. North Mangum St. remains one of Durham's most pleasant residential streets north of Geer Street. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the residential portion of the neighborhood was still in close proximity to downtown, with large houses along the 400, 500, and 600 blocks of the street. During the early 20th...

North Mangum St. remains one of Durham's most pleasant residential streets north of Geer Street. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the residential portion of the neighborhood was still in close proximity to downtown, with large houses along the 400, 500, and 600 blocks of the street. During the early 20th century, with extension of the...

In the background, with the tower, 511 North Mangum St. North Mangum St. remains one of Durham's most pleasant residential streets north of Geer Street. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the residential portion of the neighborhood was still in close proximity to downtown, with large houses along the 400, 500, and 600 blocks of the...

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...

A residential area up until the 1920s, the Rigsbee / Mangum / East Chapel Hill triangle quickly infilled with commercial auto-related businesses by the late 1920s. Looking north at the intersection of N. Mangum St. and Rigsbee Ave. and SE Rochelle's motorcycle club, ~1910. (Courtesy Durham County Library) Above, an aerial view of the E. Chapel Hill...

(Copyright Sanborn Map Company) I haven't uncovered any pictures of the two-story frame house that stood on the corner of West Geer and North Mangum through the 1950s. From the above 1937 Sanborn map, it appears to have had a large, wrapped front porch and projecting bay windows on the north side. The building immediately to the south of it...

The southeast corner of N. Mangum and East Chapel Hill contained several two- and three-story commercial structures, all built in the late 1910s-early 1920s The southeast corner is to the right in this photo, looking northeast from N. Manguma and East Chapel Hill, 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The view north on North Mangum, 1940 - the structures...