Condominiums

09.20.14 A really neat addition to the Central Park area, and particularly a neat addition to the core of Durham. Central Park co-housing is an urban co-housing model - to me it represents a great additional element to the people that make up the area, when combined with the nearby condos at Mangum 506, the bevy of apartments that are currently on...

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Row of four two-story condominiums perpendicular to street. Although these units were completed in 1984, their modern design features set-back materials, configurations, and multiple gabled roofline compatible with the older neighboring structures.

~1940 (Courtesy Dana Few Pope) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Durham historian, history professor and librarian W.K. Boyd was the original owner of the circa 1912 Colonial Revival style house. Each plane of the hipped roof carries gabled dormers; the two-story main block is...

--- Looking northeast, 1948 The northeast corner of North Mangum and Wyatt Streets was residential until ~1930; the last house at 502 N. Mangum was inhabited in 1923 by HD O'Briant. By 1934, a filling/service station had taken its place on the corner, known as the Mangum-Wyatt Service Station. (It is frequently abbreviated "Man-Wy Service Station"...

Carmichael Warehouse under construction in 1926, shot from the top of the Hicks warehouse looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)