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2713 N. Roxboro

The very large lot with mature trees and the semi-circular driveway with stone posts flanking the entrances enhance the distinction of this large two-story frame house with bungalow features. At the time of its construction in the 1920s, it was the only house in this block. Clipped gable rooflines, exterior sheathing of alternating tall and short...

312 East Umstead Street - Harriet Tubman YWCA (Second)

(County Tax Record photo) Segregated from facilities serving Durham's white community, the Harriet Tubman YWCA was a major site of organizing for civil and women's rights activism. Built alongside the John M. Avery House, which it had used since relocating from its first address on Fayetteville Street in 1937, the Tubman Y's new building opened...

613 Vickers Avenue

706 Risgbee Avenue

706 Rigsbee was the site of the LIttle Acorn restaurant. The Little Acorn restaurant was started in 1940 by Robert Roycroft. Like many of the eating establishments that lined Rigsbee Ave. and Morgan St., the Little Acorn catered to businesses in and patrons of the warehouse district, but it appears to have had far wider appeal as well. Per a 1951...

2618 Hillsborough Road

2618 Hillsborough Road, 06.17.58 I'm not sure I've ever seen a house decapitated in quite the same way 2618 Hillsborough Road was. It's almost as if the crew responsible for the shrinking of the Old Cigarette Factory in 1948 was hungry for work. Building Shortening Services? The Home Halving Co.? 2618 Hillsborough Road, 06.07.09 Find this spot on a...

1222 Holloway Street

1222 Holloway, 10.02.10 Per the 1980 historic inventory: Minzey Lawrence House Minzey Lawrence, farmer and carpenter, was the earliest known owner of this one-story frame house which is a representative example of the the medium-sized, tastefully detailed dwellings constructed throughout East DUrham in the first two decades of [the 20th century]...