Commercial

1212-1214 Angier Avenue

View of the rear of 1212-1214 Angier, with the two long monitor roofs, looking north, 1950s (Courtesy of The Herald-Sun). Though county tax records date these buildings to 1900, it appears they were built later on the site of earlier houses on the streets north of the Commonwealth / Morven Cotton Mill. The evolution of construction at 1212-1214...

416 Walker Street

416 Walker St., 02.28.1989 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) Multiple surveys - including the one that produced this photo just prior to the building's demolition - describe this brick-faced building as a current or former grocery store. The 1960 edition of Hill's Durham City Directory lists a C. E. Flowers grocer at this address.

313 West Main St.

300 West Main St. looking east, 1900. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) 313 West Main is one of those downtown commercial structures that may be, in Durham terms, quite old, or sequentially replaced, or modified so heavily over the years that it isn't easily tied to its origins. Regardless, the earliest concentration of commercial...

1220 Fayetteville St.

This one-story, flat-roofed commercial building is four bays wide. It has a brick façade and painted concrete-block side and rear elevations. The parapet is topped with terra cotta coping. There are two businesses in the building, each with an entrance and picture window on the façade. There are two small square windows on each side elevation. The...

107-109 East Chapel Hill Street

107-109 East Chapel Hill Street - visible above as the single story structure between the two two-story structures with two large pyramidal skylights. (Courtesy Duke Archives) Notice the central, arched first floor entryway with flanking arched windows. It's possible, with the size of the front entryway, wide enough to acommodate a carriage. 100...

Sessoms-Markham House

One of the more unusual and attractive house designs in Lakewood, and in Durham, is the Sessoms-Markham house, with its large front and side gambrel-roof gable and wrapped front porch. The house was inhabited for many years by JO Markham, a Liggett and Myers employee. At some point in the last 30 years, the house was converted to commercial use and houses offices, as do many of the former houses on this portion of Chapel Hill Road.

407-413 North Mangum

Looking northeast, 1924. (Courtesy Duke Archives) The building at 407-413 North Mangum was built in the late 1910s or early 1920s. The structure was divided into 4 identical storefronts (407, 409, 411, 413), each with a stepped parapet facade. (Shown above with a blue dot) A view of part of the building (413 N. Mangum) looking northwest from East Chapel Hill St., late 1920s.