Residential

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...

Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.1.2002. County property records show this house as having been constructed in 1940. As of 2017, the structure remained largely unchanged from when the above photo was taken.

Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.1.2002. County property records show this house as having been constructed in 1943, although a 1937 Sanborn Fire Insurance map indicates a single-family structure at this location with roughly the same dimensions and alignment. Permits on file with the city and county show a significant amount of...

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1935.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. Though county tax records date this structure to 1925, a barber named James Wesley (J. W.) Whitaker appears at this address for a dozen years beginning in 1919. His wife - Mary Hester Tapp Whitaker - purchased the property in 1915. She seems to have held various jobs, from...

November 2002, photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers. According to county property records, this pyramid cottage was built by 1930, but it seems likely to predate that assessment by a decade or more. Originally from a farming family north of town, James Urban Lowe had been drafted and served in Europe during the First World War. A...

Photo by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.1.2002. According to county property records, this structure was built in 1920, when Hazel Street was briefly known as an extension of Pearl Street (and prior to that, as Cobb Avenue). Originally one of several East End rental properties of the Horner family (Durham native and Trinity College/UNC...

Photography by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1944. Nevertheless, residents are listed at this address in city directories dating back to 1926, and the structure at 511 Gray appears identical in the 1937 and 1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1944. Nevertheless, residents are listed at this address in city directories dating back to 1927, and the duplex at 509 Gray appears identical in the 1937 and 1950 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. While county records have this bungalow dated to 1943, historical sources suggest it had been built by the late 1920s. The owners at the time - and the first listed residents at this address - were Alexander C. and Vester Suitt Cokley. A. C. Cokley, as his name frequently appears...