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Looking southeast, 02.20.51 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) The Dennis Service Station was built in the late 1920s. By the late 1940s, it had become the West Russell Amoco Service Station. At some point between the 1940s and 1970s, the building was replaced by a more modern service station building, sans awning.

(Courtesy Durham County Library) 128 East Parrish St., the southwest corner of North Church St. and East Parrish St., housed a hardware store when this picture was taken in the late 1920s during a snow melt. The name on the glass says "Taylor and Ph(?)" (can't read the last name). The building received a fine pink facade covering during the late 1950s or early 1960s. It currently houses law offices.

Above, the south side of the 100 block of East Main St., looking southeast, 1924. 112-116 East Main is the three-story structure mid-block (Courtesy Duke Archives) The 100 block of East Main St. was, along with 100 West Main St., the earliest retail focus in Durham. Generally, in the development of Durham, early frame structures were supplanted by...