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These are shots of Perry Street.

Perry St. #2

These shops on Perry link Ninth Street and Duke's East Campus. According to a 1910 Erwin Mills map, Perry Street used to be called Hillsboro Avenue (not to be confused with Hillsborough Road, farther north).

Fidelity

Across the street, Fidelity Bank's West Durham branch occupied what is now a bagel shop (image from 1920 bank check)

Perry St. #1

Thanks to suggestions posted on the neighborhood listserve, OWDNA worked with Duke, St. Joseph's, Blacknall, Bull City Market, Ninth Street Merchants Association and the City to have this four-way stop sign installed at busy Perry and Iredell.

Visitors to Cosmic Cantina and Ninth Street Dance climb up some old creaky stairs

CHBlak

Blacknall Church at Perry and Iredell.

Perry St. Cemetary
The only store in the Bull City that sells or repairs bikes, Durham Cycle Center welcomes Duke students walking to the Ninth Street shopping district.

Cemetary Gate

Trinity College football games used to be played on East Campus (near Perry and Broad). The break in the stone wall is all that remains of an old red-brick wall of ticket windows. Duke field hockey teams now face their rivals here. The red brick building overlooking the field is Bivins Hall, the last remaining building from the Trinity Park School (named after the prep school'sfirst headmaster).

Judy & Sara Griffin
Summer of '42: 1802 Perry Street, with the East Campus wall at the end of the street. Griffin twins are sitting in front of the residence of Pearl Hardin. The house, which was two doors from Broad Street, has been replaced by what is now Duke's HR office. Photo courtesy of Will Griffin.

Perry Street from West Durham Winter, by George Zabriskie (Knopf, 1941)

Perry Street defines an American landscape
In two short blocks: with a vacant lot
And a bank on one side, bloodless houses
Of a standardized pattern, painted drably
In standardized colors, a production line
Of bleakness; and the redbrick yellowbrick
Stucco pattern of the stores on the other
Finish it to the mill with geometric neatness.

One man made a garden in the yard before
His house: a brick lined cinderpath,
Old auto rims and rubber tires which hold
Flowers in the spring. around them bare
Packed earth, and broken toys in exile.

If anyone else has pictures of other OWD homes or landmarks, email me and either attach the scans, or arrange to drop off the pictures to me and I'll scan them and put them on the site.

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Tom Clark, webmaster