People & Places

As the Sanborn maps I've shown in previous posts demostrate, large single family homes lined both sides of West Chapel Hill St. during the early 20th century. Per the Historic Inventory, in 1928, Dr. Baird Brooks commissioned well-known Durham architect George Watts Carr to build an apartment building that also held Dr. Brooks' medical office on the northwest corner of Gregson St. and West Chapel Hill St., which he called "The Eloise."

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides collection, Durham County Library)

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1215 and 1217 North Roxboro Street, 1960s (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 1980 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) 1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) 1999 03.28.11

1215 and 1217 North Roxboro Street, 1960s (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper) 1980 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) 03.28.11

1983 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1201 North Roxboro, 03.28.11 (Photo by Gary Kueber) 1201 North Roxboro, rear, 03.28.11 (Photo by Gary Kueber) This house was purchased by Reinvestment Partners in 2011 and renovated as office space. The rear wing visible in the second picture above was removed and replaced. 10.18.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber) UPDATED: February 2019 When local nonprofit...

One of Durham's great 1920s-1930s apartment buildings