Service Station

Shell Filling Station, 12.07.56 (Herald-Sun) Looking northeast from West Chapel Hill St. at the approximate location of Yates Ave. The line of the street would have extended towards the billboard from West Chapel Hill. 02.02.08. (G. Kueber)

Looking southwest, May 1938. (Courtesy Duke Forest Collection) Located directly across Erwin Road from Southside School, Dillehay's garage was likely built ~1930, and was demolished in 1950, during the construction of the Graduate Men's Dormitory in 1950. It is currently part of a very large swath of surface parking.

The 1927 comprehensive plan described the area north of Knox Street between Duke St. on the west and Roxboro Road on the east as comprised of "a great variety of scenery - some of the finest in Durham - rugged bluffs and deep ravines, as well as smooth meadows. It is so accessible and varied in its scenery and so well adapted to park purposes that...

Looking north at the Texaco Station. , 1952. The Scott and Roberts Cleaners is in the left background on Foster St. (Courtesy Wayne Henderson) The Texaco station at the northeast corner of W. Geer and Foster Sts. appears to have originally been built in the 1940s. By the 1960s, it had become a Sinclair Station. Looking northeast, a partial view of...

319-321 West Pettigrew, looking southwest, 1965 (Courtesy Durham County Library) West Pettigrew Street, neé Railroad St., began as a residential street situated between the Blackwell Factory and the Duke Factory Looking west from the top of the Blackwell Factory, mid-1880s. Carr St. and an early Blackwell's Durham Tobacco building are in the...

The south side of the 300 block of Liberty St. had, much like the 100 block of North Queen St., succumbed to some decay and commercial creep by the mid-1960s. Only two of the once continuous row of large homes remained in January 1966. 208 North Roxboro The remainder of these houses, and the gas station, were demolished by the city using urban renewal funds.

The south side of the 400 block of Holloway was a combination of commercial and residential structures. 406 Holloway - which had been a residential structure early in the 20th century, but was replaced by a service station (one of the 4 in these two blocks,) looking southeast, 1963. 217-219 N. Dillard st. - looking west-southwest from the southeast...

The 200 block of Holloway was a transitional block between downtown and the East End during the middle portion of the 20th century. As Highway 98/US 70 leading into downtown, (in the pre-interstate era), gas stations and small services proliferated along Holloway. (Holloway was a dominantly residential street in the early 20th century, with the...

Looking northeast, with East Chapel Hill St. on the right and North Mangum on the left, 1920s. (Courtesy Durham County Library) A residential neighborhood during the 1890s-1910s, the intersection of North Mangum and East Chapel Hill was, by the 1920s, the 'border' between the growing downtown commercial area and the residential neighborhood. In the...