Union Hall

705-707 North Mangum Street

Labor Temple, 1950s (Courtesy Herald-Sun) In April 1941, the heirs of Mary A. Green - longtime resident of a home at this address who had bought the land from A. M. Rigsbee in the 1880s - sold this parcel to trustees of the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union, Local 585. By the next year, along with more than two dozen other 'locals' affiliated through...

403 Pine Street / South Roxboro St.

403 S. Roxboro, 1962. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The east side of the 400 block of Pine Street / South Roxboro St. was primarily a residential street, developed in the 1880s, initially as part of a primarily Jewish community of eastern European cigarette-rollers working in the tobacco factories. 400 block of Pine...

951-953 East Main St.

951-953 East Main, September 2007 951-953 was built in the mid-1920s; like many of the structures to its west, it replaced earlier frame mercantile structures. 1928 951 Brown Brothers and Holt 953 Edgemont Market 1933 953 Edgemont Market 1937 Vacant 1944 951: JE Gunter Hosiery Mill 953: Scott and Roberts dry cleaners 1952

205 South Gregson - Tobacco Workers Local 176

2019 Angier Avenue

2019 Angier, 1980 2019 Angier appears to have been built in the 1940s as a "Jr Order of United American Mechanics Hall - Green Fred Council." This union had previously been located at 459 1/2 South Driver Street. It remained as such through the 1960s. By 1980, it was a florist shop, and by the 1990s, it was a shoe store. Then, it burned. It had...

459-463 South Driver Street