Law Offices

Citizens Bank Building -- The Sneed-Thomas building was constructed on the southeast corner of East Main St. and South Mangum St. in the 1890s. It housed the Sneed and Thomas drugstore, operated by Paul C. Sneed and Allen S. Thomas. Their building was described in the "Handbook of Durham" as "a large three-story pressed brick building with marble...

109 West Parrish Street is actually the same structure as 112 West Main Street. The structure was built after the previous building on the site was destroyed/mostly destroyed in the 1914 fire. Looking west, 1914; the south side of the street is on the left. (I had not realized what an impressive terminating vista the Academy of Music once was at...

(Courtesy Norman Williams Collection) (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...

When Captain Addison Mangum, a cousin of United States Senator Willie P. Mangum, took over operations of the Flat River Post Office, he moved it in 1858 to this one-story two-room structure on his farm. There the post office and Mangum’s law office shared quarters with one room reportedly allocated to each purpose. The small frame building is...

Some blocks are just really, really hard to put together a sequence of images for - the south side of the 100 block of East Parrish St. is one of those. Below is one of the few views of the block face, with 108 East Parrish clearly visible, and the remaining structures rather fuzzy. Looking east, 1940. Another view of the block, from a colorized...