People & Places

I have no picture of the frame house that stood on the northeast corner of North Mangum and West Geer Streets prior to the 1930s - by 1937, it had been replaced with a simple 'filling station' in the common style of the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1950s, this station had been expanded to include garage bays to the rear. Looking northeast, 1952 (Courtesy Wayne Henderson)

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

Turn-of-the-20th century structure with neoclassical elements; likely built by JB Mason, and later home to TG Sexton and Jimmy Andrews. Came into the ownership of James 'Fireball' White, who managed to get it destoyed in 2007.

Constructed early in the 20th century by the Murray family, this two story, T-shaped house was long associated with its subsequent owners, the J.P. Whitley family.

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

1307 North Mangum, 1930s Built on land that was originally part of the property of 1311 North Mangum Street, directly to the north, the International Style house at 1307 North Mangum Street was built by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gamble in 1935. Mrs. Gamble's father, Richard E. Dillard, who owned 1311 North Mangum, subdivided his property and gave the...

This large, two story frame house, decorated with Neoclassical Revival features of Ionic columns on the wraparound porch, pedi- mented gabled wings, and a Palladian window in the front attic dormer, was built for the Phipps family early in this century. The house was sold around 1920 to John Moore, who later sold a portion of the property as two adjacent lots to the east. Subsequent owners include W.W. Weaver, who purchased the Durham Sun in the 1910s, and a Mr. Tilley, who renovated the house prior to 1975.

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

1982 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides collection, Durham County Library)

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