Residential

The 400 block of Brant Street was developed in the 1920s and 1930s with single family houses - many built by residents affiliated with the North Carolina College (Central.) At 406 Brant St., Dr. Stanford L. Warren built his house. Dr. Warren was born in Caswell County in 1863 and moved to Durham at age two. He attended Kitrell College and the Leonard Medical School at Shaw before returning to Durham to practice medicine at Lincoln Hospital.

(Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / scanned by Digital Durham) Dr. Joseph Napoleon Mills was born in Richards, NC in 1879 and attended Kittrell Normal and Industrial School and Leonard Medical School, from which he graduated with an MD in 1907. Mills began practicing medicine in Durham in 1907, and married Sarah J. Amey of Durham...

FK Watkins house, late 1970s. Frederick K. Watkins constructed the house at 1208 Fayetteville St. around 1913. Watkins either dubbed himself, or found himself dubbed (P.I.) 'The Movie King' for his ownership of, first, the Electric Theater, which became the Rex Theater and moved to 522 East Pettigrew St., and then the Wonderland Theater - it...

1106 Fayetteville, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Above, 1100 block of Fayetteville St., looking north from Umstead St., 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. Scanned by Digital Durham.) The west side of the 1100 block of Fayetteville St. was another primarily residential block of Fayetteville...

1006 Fayetteville, the CC Spaulding House, 1922. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection and scanned by Digital Durham.)

Between Banks Place and Fowler Ave. was another residential block of Fayetteville St., occupied by 909, 911, and 1003 Fayetteville. 909 Fayetteville, 1962 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

906, 908, and 910 Fayetteville, the block between Fowler Avenue (to the north) and East Piedmont Avenue (to the south) was a residential block. In 1923, 906 was occupied by ER Merrick. 906 Fayetteville, the ER Merrick house, 1922 (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, scanned by digital durham) This block was still intact 40 years...

The 900 block of Fayetteville St., by the 1940s, began the southern transition to the more residential portion of the Hayti neighborhood. 907 Fayetteville was the longtime home of Ms. Bessie Whitted. 907 Fayetteville, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) These structures were demolished by the late 1960s. I believe...

The Rosalie Apartments, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Rosalie apartments were built in the late 1920s or early 1930s - similar in style to many of the 6-10 unit apartment buildings built along well-traveled corridors during the 20s and 30s. They were demolished in the mid 1960s. Site of 811 Fayetteville, 10...