2002 E. Main St.

35.985519, -78.878884

2002
Durham
NC
Cross Street
Year built
1908
Year(s) modified
2014
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Construction type
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Pyramidal cottage with a front cross-gable, a side gabled wing, weatherboard, and 1-over-1 sash windows. The wraparound porch has stone Craftsman piers and replacement metal posts, and is enclosed as a room on the side. 1930 CD, 1937 SM.

The land for 2002 East Main Street (Formerly Reams Avenue, prior to East Durham's annexation in 1925), was purchased by Haywood Alvin Jones and his wife Lela Jones in 1913 from Durham Land & Security Company. Haywood, or H.A. Jones, was a butcher at the Butcher Shop in City Market that existed where the Durham Armory now stands in downtown Durham. The Joneses only lived in the home for a few years before moving across the street to a large two-story victorian 101 N. Driver (now the parking lot for Shepherd's House). They rented the home in the 20s and 30s to a variety of tenants, including H.A.'s employee, Lonnie L. Davis. In 1944, H.A. and Lela sold the home to John T. Ellis and his wife Eulalia Ellis. In 1949, Zo Barbour along with his wife Callie Davis purchased the house and resided there for a number of years until around the time of their deaths in 1976 and 1980.

Alison "Ali" Rudel and Husband Benjamin "Ben" Filippo purchased the home in 2014 and operated "East Durham Pie Company" out of their home kitchen starting around 2015. In 2017 the couple launched a kickstarter campaign to open a brick and mortar shop in Old East Durham, raising over $20,000 for the project. This project would manifest in early 2018 as "East Durham Bake Shop" on the corner of Driver St and Angier Ave. In August of 2020 WRAL published a story of workers alleging the bakery to be a toxic workplace and the bakery would end up closing its doors just two weeks after this report. Ben and Ali sold the house in December of 2020.

The house in 2014:

2002 E Main St in 2014

The dwelling is marked in 1913 and 1937 versions of the Sanborn fire insurance maps:

Sanborn Fire Maps 1913, The Driver Land
1913 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, with the dwelling marked off "Reams" Avenue towards the very top of the image
Sanborn Fire Maps 1937 Durham "The Driver Land"
In the 1937 version of the maps we can see the dwelling on a smaller plot and the rename of Reams Avenue to E Main St (towards the center of the image) 

Comments

My wife and I purchased this home a few weeks ago and will be working on it over the summer. Our hope is to restore it to it's original beauty to the best of our abilities. We will, of course, be removing the lovely beige vinyl siding as soon as we have the resources to paint the exterior. We hope to develop a significant permaculture garden in the large corner lot. We also hope to have a neighborhood pig pickin when we finish work this fall!

That's great! Congratulations Ben - can't wait to see what you do with it.

 

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