Laundry

210 May St / Gray Ave

210 Gray Avenue as Greater Harvest Pentecostal Holy Bible Church of God, September 2017 (Durham County Tax Administration) This building was originally constructed in the mid-1920s as the "sanitary plant" for a laundry company, Sanitary Dry Cleaning, Inc - apparently an off-site facility for a business with a storefront at 114 North Church. A man...

518-520 East Pettigrew

518 East Pettigrew, ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 518 1/2 East Pettigrew, ~1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 520 - 520 1/2 East Pettigrew ~ 1970 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Built in the late 1920s, 518-522 East Pettigrew housed a variety of...

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...

1100 Broad St. - Broad Street Service Station

In the 1960s, the New Method Laundry moved here, after their place on Holloway was deemed wreckable by Urban Renewal. It's currently (2012) a florist's shop, owned by "Flower Girls, LLC."

2106 E. Pettigrew St.

217 Foster Street

217 Foster Street

408 Morgan St.

The north side of the 400 block of Morgan (between Morris and Roney) and the north side of the 300 block of Morgan (between Roney and Foster) contained primarily small, commercial structures. Morgan St., even more so than Chapel Hill St., contained fewer retail establishments and more industrial/service-oriented businesses. 408 Morgan 408 Morgan...

Old Durham Laundry

--- (Courtesy Duke Archives) The buildings along the west side of the 200 block of North Church St. are a very-well preserved block of early 20th century structures. The Hicks building, on the northwest corner of North Church and East Parrish, and its immediate 3 neighbors to the north were constructed around 1910. 209-211 North Church, at the...

1026-1028 Holloway Street

1026-1028 Holloway Street, 10.02.10 1026-1028 Holloway Street appears to have been built between 1923 and 1928. In 1928, Inscoe Market (run by Genada Inscoe) is located at this address. In 1934, Edward Henley, druggist, is located at 1026 and Inscoe Market at 1028. 1026 was known as the Holloway Street Pharmacy by 1941, and 1028 remained Inscoe...

907-909 East Main

907-909 East Main was built sometime ~1920. It first housed the Edgemont Cafe at 907 and the Petty-Roberts Laundry at 909; this became the Scott & Roberts Laundry by 1923. 909 was vacant by 1933. By 1938, 907 was vacant, but 909 housed Jimmie's Soda Shop. By 1947, 907 housed O&C Sport Shop billiards, which became the East Main Sport Shop by 1952. A...