Apartments

W.O. Moss had this one-and-one-half story frame house constructed in the early 1920s. Moss had a wide variety of business interests, including real estate development and speciality poultry. Two of his real estate ventures were the construction of a brick commercial building at the corner of Chapel Hill Rd. and Lakewood Ave. (destroyed) and the Crystal Lake Amusement Park off Guess Rd.

The Edgemont/Morning Glory commercial strip along the 900 block of East Main Street was actually subdivided into a commercial node at Elm Street and a commercial node at Morning Glory Ave., with 4 residential structures between the two. 1950s aerial, highly magnified, showing the 3 commercial buildings at the west end of the block, the 4 houses in the middle of the block, and the commercial structures at the east end of the block.

Find this spot on a Google Map. 36.009981,-78.913824 (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Handsome four-story neoclassical style four-plex with Flemish bond exterior built 1920s. The entrance of double doors with transom and sidelights is recessed behind a round arch with stone consoles...

From N. Buchanan Blvd., 1920s (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) One of the earlier masonry apartment buildings in Trinity Park, the Powe Apartments were built between 1920 and 1923 by contractor TH Lawrence. The apartments consist of two buildings with differing facades - one that faces N. Buchanan Blvd. (which appears to...

Still frame from HLW film of Durham, showing the Evans house soon after construction, ~1940 The Evans house was built in 1937 by Eli Evans and his wife Sara; Evans had come to Chapel Hill to attend UNC from Fayetteville, and Sara had come to Durham with her parents, the Nachamsons, who started United Dollar Stores on West Main Street. Eli and Sara were married in 1928 and took over the United Dollar Stores - which would become Evans' United Department Store - in 1929.

Edgar Knox Powe built his house at Swift and West Pettigrew Streets in the late 1890s; prior to his arrival in Durham, he had been an executive with the Altamahaw Cotton Mills in Alamance County. He was brought to Durham by William Erwin as general manager of Erwin Cotton Mills. I'm unsure as to whether his marriage to William and Jessie Erwin's sister, Claudia, occurred before or after his arrival in Durham.