Residential

When Julian Carr established the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 1 (above), and the Golden Belt Hosiery Mill, he developed two communities - Edgemont and Morning Glory. At the center of those two communities, he developed a park (seen in the foreground above) with a baseball diamond, gazebo, trees, etc. This park was the center of the community - a place...

510 Holloway, likely 1960s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The R. Pearcy Reade house was built around 1900 by Mr. and Mrs. William B. McGary, who purchased the land from Julian Carr. Originally the house, like the others around it, was Victorian / Queen Anne in style. In 1909, R. Pearcy Reade purchased the house from the McGarys. In the late 1920s, he...

The house at 528 Holloway was another of the turn-of-the-century Victorians along the Holloway St. ridgeline. Looking north at the intersection of Elizabeth and Holloway. 528 Holloway is on the southwest corner. ~1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) During the 1960s, Elizabeth St. was straightened, widened and connected with Fayetteville St. to the south...

One of the oldest houses remaining upright in the City of Durham, the Calvin O'Briant house is the remaining 'farmhouse' of a much larger one-time farmstead that precedes of development of the neighborhood that now surrounds it.

The unusual and unique houses at 701 and 702 Holloway, just to the east of the Durham Belt Line railroad tracks, were undoubtedly built by the same builder around the turn of the century. With intricate sawnwork (covered by vinyl siding now,) mansard roofs (including a mansard gable on 702 Holloway) and pedimented windows, these houses survive...

The intersections of (moving south to north/bottom to top) Holloway and Elizabeth, Carlton and Elizabeth, plus Gilbert and Elizabeth) 1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) As I mentioned previously, the entire 300 block (east side) of Elizabeth St. was demolished to widen Elizabeth to 4 lanes for 1 block north of Holloway. Very useful.

Imagery is a bit limited for the remaining residential structures on the north side of the 600 block of Holloway - all early 20th century, two-story structures. 607 Holloway, 1964 The former site of 607 Holloway, 2007

603 Holloway certainly lost some of its neighborhood-y appeal in the above photo from 1964 after the demolition of 601 Holloway left it on the corner of a busy street. The loss of some additional detail around the porch (and the rather starkly fenced-off patch o' dirt in front) have diminished this house, but a good bit of detail remains. Looking...

The view of 601 Holloway, above, shows a bit of the east side of Elizabeth St. behind it. Moving into the 600 block of Holloway, the houses become somewhat smaller or simpler in style - a reflection of the human distribution in the pre-car era; if you could, you paid to be closer to downtown. In the early 1970s, this house and the houses behind it...