Music Studio

808-812 Washington St., 1949 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) By 1949, 808-812 Washington was the home of branch of the Model Cleaners, which had its beginnings on West Main Street prior to a move to 209 Foster St. by the 1920s.

Durham Sun building, 1926 The JR Day house was built during the 1880s, and took up about half the block between Queen and Roxboro Sts. The above is a sketch from 1895 of this large, elaborate house. I haven't located a photograph of the front of the house, but I noticed that a picture that purports to show something else entirely - the explosion of...