West Club Boulevard

Looking east at the intersection of Broad and West Club, May 1938 (Courtesy Duke Forest Collection) The northeast corner of Broad and West Club was initially residential in nature; the area to the west of Watts Hospital developed in earnest during the period between 1910 and 1930. The Professional Building was built in ~1951, primarily as an office...

Looking west towards W. Club and Broad St., May 1938. 1122-1124 Broad was built in the early 1930s, and initially housed Hospital Pharmacy and a branch of the (Great) A&P (Tea Company.) 1122 became a Purity Stores branch grocery by 1941. It remained this until 1960, when it became a Durham Bank and Trust Co. branch. When DB&T became CCB via merger...

1123 Broad, 1930s. (Courtesy Joyce Tipton) By the mid-1920s, the southwest corner of Broad and West Club had become a Standard Oil Co. Service Station. By 1941, this had become Dodson's filling station, which became an Esso station by 1948, and Dodson and Faucette Exxon by the 1960s. Looking northwest, 1950s. The Esso service station is visible...

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)