Hill's Durham (Durham County, N.C.) City Directory [1936-1937], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1936
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 816


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DURHAM ELECTRIC A


CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.


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Surplus $750,000.00


The Fidelity Bank


BURHAM, WEST DURHAM AND EAST DURHAM PRO IRGAL SAVINGS TRUST -SAFE-DEPOSIT


GIBATER STRENGTH


BETTER SERVICE MEMBER FEST ... . EPOSIT . SURANCE COMP.


GEO. W. KANE


GENERAL CONTRACTOR


Franc F-2941


2 W. Main


IH BARI ES


SERVICE


FUNERAL DIRECTORS


Lookar Foderoy Doppelt FRalcoa


MORRIS PLAN Industrial Bars


SAVINGS


BADES | Surprins - $100,000 Capital - $101,40


MOTOR CO.


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Emily's Beauty Salon "Individuality Makes Personality"


000


Durham's Only Modernistic Beauty Salon


PHONE F-3011 114 W. MAIN STREET Roscoe Griffin, Second Floor Elevator Service


T. E. ALLEN & SONS MUTUAL INSURANCE


Automobile - Casualty Fire Tornado


Health and Accident


PHONE F-9191


302 Geer Building


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Duke University


Curricula, equipment and expense information may be obtained from


The General Bulletin The Bulletin on Undergraduate Instruction The Bulletin of the Graduate School The Bulletin of the Departments of Engineering The Bulletin of the School of Law The Bulletin of the School of Religion The Bulletin of the School of Medicine The Bulletin of the School of Nursing The Bulletin of the Summer Schools The Bulletin on Forestry


Address applications and inquiries to


Secretary


DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA


DURHAM CITY DIRECTORY (1936-37)


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GENERAL INDEX


Page


Abbreviations


60


Alphabetical List of Names 61


Apartment Buildings 750


Associations and Clubs-Commercial. 751


Banks and Trust Companies 755


Buildings-Office and Public. 759


Buyers' Guide


25


Cemeteries


760


Churches 760


City Government 198


Classified Business Directory 749


763


Clubs


765


Convents


767


County Officers


199 199


Federal Officers


548 198


Golf Clubs and Courses


776 780


Homes and Asylums


780


Hospitals and Dispensaries


780


Justices of the Peace


786


Labor Organizations


787


Libraries


789


Newspapers


793


Parks and Playgrounds


796


Police Department.


-198


Post Office


548


Railroads 799 Schools-Public 803


Schools, Colleges and Academies. 803


Societies-Benevolent and Fraternal. 805


Street and Avenue Guide. 605


United States Government. 548


Clergymen


Courts


Fire Department


Halls


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


Aldridge Motors Inc


.right side lines and 27


Alexander Motor Co


Allen T E & Sons


American Store


Ashlin & Hutchings


Bagwell Plumbing & Heating Co Inc


Bell V E & Sons


Borden Brick & Tile Co.


Braswell Coal Co


Brown D W Dry Cleaners .left top lines and


Brown Ernest C Dr


Budd-Piper Roofing Co


left side lines and


C & H Motor Co .


left side lines and


Carolina Finance Co


Carolina Glass Co


Carpenters Inc


right side lines and


Christian-Harward Furniture Co Inc right top lines and


Citizens Coal & Coke Co


.left top lines and


City Dairy Farm


City Plumbing & Heating Co


Connell Realty & Mortgage Co


Cut Rate Ice & Coal Co Inc


. left bottom lines


Depositors National Bank The


right top lines and


Duke University


Durham Bond & Mortgage Co


Durham Book & Stationery Co Inc


left bottom lines


Durham Builders Supply Co


Durham Coca Cola Bottling Co


Durham Dairy Products Inc


backbone and 41


Durham Drug Co


Durham Electric Construction Co Inc front cover and


Durham Industrial Bank


.right top lines and


Durham Loan & Trust Co


Durham Lumber Co


Durham Marble Works


Durham Public Service Co right top lines and


Durham Realty & Insurance Co left top lines and


Elkins Motor Sales Co back cover and


Emily's Beauty Salon


Fidelity Bank The


Fidelity Insurance Agency


Fillers R R


Five Points Furniture Co .right top lines and


Glenn Coal Co


Globe Jewelry Co Inc


Granite Service Stations


Green Lantern Restaurant The


Hall-Wynne & Co


Harvey's Cafeteria


Haywood & Boone


Home Building & Loan Assn


Home Furniture Co


Home Insurance Agency


Home Savings Bank


.right top lines and


Hotel Gas & Storage Inc


Hotel Malbourne


Hotel Washington Duke


Howerton-Bryan Co Inc


Jobe-Blackley Plumbing Co


Johnson Motor Co


Johnson Service Station


Jones H F Millwork Co


Kane Geo W


front cover and


Kennedy's Auto Service Co left side lines and 30


Kennedy's Commercial School left bottom lines


Kimball W W


Lakewood Dairy


left side lines and


Latta Roofing Co


left side lines


Long Meadow Dairies


42


Lyon W C Co Inc


left bottom lines


Markham J C & Sons


left side lines


.left side lines and 29 2 4 26


55


.left top lines


front cover and 35 38 37 37 58 27 52 Y 28 47 4 56 40 55 56 32 3 57 36


Citizens Realty & Insurance Co


back cover and 35


left top lines and 42 43 32


bottom stencil and 33 right side lines 53 3 56 29 2 31 Z front cover and 50 47 38 51 26 front cover and 57 45 57 .right top lines 36 46 .left top lines and 50 33 26 48 49 44 55 front cover and 28 26 . back cover and 53 39


53 41


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Page


May Claude M


front stencil, 54 and 59


May D C


backbone and 54


McDonald Ice & Coal Co


left bottom lines


McGhee R S Coal Co


.right bottom lines


McLaurin Funeral Home


Mechanics & Farmers Bank


right bottom lines


Miles D E


Model Laundry Co


Modern Electric Co Inc


Morris Plan Industrial Bank front cover and


Muirhead Wm Construction Co Inc . tcp stencil and


Murdock Ice & Coal Co Inc . .right side lines and


New Durham Blalock & Beck Dry Cleaners


New Method Laundry Co


Newport Lumber Co


.right bottom lines and


Nicholson Inc .


left bottom lines


Northcutt V L-Dixie Awnings


Palms Restaurant The


Parker Letter Service


.right side lines


Paschall Bros .


Penny Furniture Co


right bottom lines


Penny G F Coal Co


Phillips Preson P Mutual Insurance Agency. . .right top lines and


Pickard Roofing Co


. back cover and


Pritchard-Bright & Co Inc


Ray Lumber Co


Riley Paint Co left top lines and


Rochelle Sidney E


left side lines and


Rogers Drug Co


Roll Fred Florist


Rose Agency Inc The


.right bottom lines


.Scarborough & Hargett


46


Scott Coal Co .


right bottom lines


Sectt & Roberts-Sanitary Dry Cleaning Co.


. back cover and .37 54


Sinclair at Five Points


right bottom lines


Scuthgate J & Son Inc


. back cover and 50


Tailored Man The.


.left bottom lines


Terry Hardy G right bottom lines


Thompson Motor Co


30


Thompson & Cannady


back cover and 40


U-Drive It Yourself Inc


.right side lines


United Furniture Co right top lines and


47


University Motors Inc left top lines and


30


Uzzle Motor Co Inc right side lines and 29 51


Weaver's


White Star Laundry .left bottom lines


White Way Lunch


58


Young Roofing Co Inc


back cover and 59


46


44 52 43 34 40 39 38 52 52


North Carolina Mutual Life Ins Co


.right side lines and 51 30 57


56


$9 50 58 38 36 54 34 42 44


Show Paint & Wall Paper Co


INTRODUCTION


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1936-37 edition of the Durham City Directory. Two new features, the designation of the number of minor children in each family and the designation of tenant- owned homes, mark this edition.


Confidence in the growth of Durham's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Direc- tcry is a mirror truly reflecting Durham to the world.


The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estima- tion of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and profes- sional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Durham Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.


Four Major Departments


The four major departments are arranged in the following order :-


THE BUYERS' GUIDE, pages 25 to 60, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing. business and professional interests of Durham. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is refer- ence advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of informa- tion immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.


THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is included in pages 61 to 603. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Durham, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corpora- tion in the city. A new feature of this department is the designation of the number of minor children in each family.


THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, covers pages 605 to 777. In this section the named streets are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the num- bered streets in numerical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. A new feature of this section is the designation of tenant-owned homes.


THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 749 to 810. This department lists the names of all business and pro- fessional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.


Municipal Publicity


The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place or residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Durham.


The Durham Directory Library


Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Durham City Direc- tory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Durham Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 450 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North Ameri- can Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is oper- ated.


The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assur- ance that it will bring a commensurate return.


HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers.


DURHAM


NOTED TOBACCO AND TEXTILE CENTER; A CENTER OF INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION (Courtesy Durham Chamber of Commerce)


STATISTICAL REVIEW


Form of Government-Council-manager.


Population-Total, 52,037; males, 24,629; females, 27.408; white males of age. 14,137; white females of age, 15,856; total colored, 18,717 (1930 U. S. Census). Government estimate in 1933, 58,900. Local esti- mate at present, 65,000. American-born, 99.3%.


Area-12.8 square miles.


Altitude-406 feet above sea level.


Climate-Mean annual temperature, 59.6 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 47.19 inches.


Parks-7, with total of 117 acres, valued at $323,000. Also 12 city playgrounds.


Assessed Valuation-$71,500,000, with $1.70 per $100 tax rate.


Bonded Debt-$9,218,826.07.


Financial Facts-6 banks, with total deposits of $23,982,123.18 (June 30, 1936), and total resources of $27,501,740.89 (June 30, 1936). Clearings for 1935, $178,995,853.42. 4 building and loan associations, with total assets of $3,011,144.91 (June 30, 1936).


Postal Receipts-$307,563.87 (calendar year 1935).


Telephones in Service-6,519.


Churches-86, representing 12 denominations.


Building and Construction-404 building permits, with total value $1,123,655.50, issued in 1935.


of Real Estate-1,544 transfers made in 1935. 10,893 homes, with about 40% owned by occupants.


Industry-88 manufacturing establishments, employing 7,000 men and 6,100 women, paying wages of $13,000.000 annually, and having products valued at $160,336,003 annually (1933 U. S. Census of Manu- factures). Principal manufactured products: Cigarettes, smoking tobaccos, hosiery, sheets and pillowcases, ginghams, flour and proprie- tary medicines.


Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 25 miles, and population of 148,000; wholesale area, radius of 50 miles, and population of 508,000 (Based on 1930 U. S. Census).


Newspapers-2 dailies, 1 daily and Sunday, and 5 weeklies.


Hotels-9, with total of 800 rooms.


Railroads-5: Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk & Western, Durham & Southern, and Norfolk Southern.


Highways-U. S. 15, 70 and 501; State 55 and 91.


Airports-2, privately-owned.


Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (Armory) seats 2,500 per- sons. 6 moving-picture theatres, with total seating capacity of 3.385 persons. 2 golf courses.


Hospitals-4, with total of 820 beds.


Education-Duke University, Southern Conservatory of Music, Croft Secretarial School, Durham College of Commerce, Kennedy's Commer- cial School, and North Carolina College for Negroes. 20 public schools, including 2 senior high and 3 junior high. 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools, 12,326; in parochial, 75. Number of teachers in public schools, 357; in parochial, 4. Value of public school property, $3,442,000; parochial, $30,000; college, $20,670,000.


Public Libraries-5, including branches, with total of 458,192 volumes.


City Statistics-Total street mileage, 205, with 79 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 86.52; sewers, 303. Number of water meters, 10,224; light meters, 11,471; gas meters, 2,795. Capacity of water works (municipal) 9,000,000 gallons; daily average pumpage, 5,000,000 gallons: miles of mains, 177.7; value of plant, $4,800,000. Fire department has 59 men, with 4 stations and 10 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire depart- ment property, $325,300. Police department has 58 men, with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment.


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HISTORY


In April, 1865, at a log cabin known as the Bennett Place, near Durham's station, there occurred one of the most historic events in the history of our nation. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, and the future looked dark indeed for the Southern states. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet had escaped to Greensboro, North Carolina, and there had held fiery debate as to the advisability of continuing the Civil War. Some members of the cabinet favored continuing hostilities at any cost, even though it meant carrying on a guerrilla warfare, while others took the position that the cause of the Confederacy was forever lost and that no good could be accomplished by further bloodshed. Finally it was decided to instruct General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Confederate Armies of the Carolinas. Georgia and Florida, to negotiate terms of peace with General Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Federal Army that had broken the backbone of the Confederacy by reason of its famous march to the sea. These two generals met at the Bennett Place and signed a tentative peace agreement. This agree- ment was so favorable to the South that General Grant refused to


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ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF THE NEW HOME BANK BUILDING, NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT A COST OF $1,000,000, IN THE HEART OF DURHAM'S BUSINESS DISTRICT


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approve it, but after several days' conference, it was amended to meet General Grant's demands and was signed and approved by the govern- ments of the North and South, and the War between the States came to a close.


Marking the place of surrender, just four miles from Durham, there has been erected, through the generosity of Mrs. S. T. Morgan, a beau- tiful monument consisting of two columns, one representing the North and the other the South, joined together by a cross-piece on which is the word "Unity". This historic spot, the birthplace of a reunited nation, is visited each year by thousands of people.


The death of the Confederacy gave birth to the city of Durham, and out of the ashes of the hopes of the Southern people has been built a great and beautiful city. In 1865 Durham Station was a small and insignificant point on the North Carolina Railroad, inhabited bv less than 100 persons. There was one lone business enterprise here, a crude and unimportant tobacco factory with total assets of less than $2,000, including not only products on hand, but representing also the entire investment and replacement. History and tradition unite in saying that this factory was broken into by Sherman's soldiers and a large part of the stock carried away. Tradition further says that the product carried away was so well made and of such quality that when the soldiers re- turned to the pursuit of civil life, letters came back to Durham to ascer- tain if there was more of the product upon the market. To supply this demand a broken business was rebuilt.


In 1865 Washington Duke, a Confederate soldier, walked from New Bern to his home in Durham, and with the same stout heart that had carried him through the vicissitudes of a lost cause, turned his atten- tion to the battle for bread, which was doubtless as cruel and bitter as the war from which he had returned. He built the second factory in Durham, composed of a log cabin 20x30 feet, and with his own hands manufactured a product out of a small supply of tobacco that the Fed- eral soldiers had not found. This he called Pro Bono Publico. The annual output of this factory was originally four or five hundred pounds, and in 1872 had grown to 125.000 pounds.


In the meantime, W. T. Blackwell had moved to Durham to engage in the tobacco business. He was to the early development of the tobacco industry in Durham what Napoleon was to France, or Caesar to Rome. The Durham Bull got upon the map and in a few brief years his


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sonorous voice, like the shot at Lexington, was heard around the world. In 1872 the two small tobacco factories had grown into twelve.


James Buchanan Duke, becoming convinced that it was neither practicable nor profitable to compete with Bull Durham smoking tobacco, turned the vision of his great genius into the cigarette field, and from that day to the present hour the increasing volume of the tobacco indus- try has become the common property of mankind.


On April 10, 1869, almost exactly four years after Johnston surren- dered to Sherman, Durham was born. There were only 258 inhabitants in the village, and the total municipal revenue was $357.44. The largest taxpayer paid $40.62 in taxes. In 1870 there were probably less than 100 wage-earners in industrial pursuits in the town.


The tobacco industry grew at a very rapid rate, using large quanti- ties of bright-leaf tobacco. While much of this type of tobacco was grown around Durham, it was sold at tobacco markets in Richmond and other Virginia cities, and local manufacturers had to pay the cost of transporting the tobacco back from Virginia to Durham. This con- dition made desirable the opening of warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco in Durham, and resulted in this city becoming one of the largest bright-leaf tobacco markets in the world, now selling from 30 to 35 mil- lion pounds each season.


During all this time there were no banks in the town, practically all the banking being transacted in Raleigh, and on days of big sales at the tobacco warehouses it was necessary to obtain cash from the merchants in order to pay the farmer for his product. Such incon- veniences could not long continue, and soon two banks were established.


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The next step in the industrial and commercial history of the town was the bringing in of additional railway lines. By the co-operation of manufacturers, merchants, and the city and county governments, the Seabord Air Line, the Southern Railway, and the Norfolk & Western Railway were given access to this market. Later the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the Durham & Southern Railway were added to the rail- way lines serving the city, giving a total of five railway companies with seven lines radiating in every direction.


Durham had now grown into a very prosperous and thriving com- munity, but its citizenship was not satisfied with having purely a com- mercial and industrial town. The people felt the need of better schools and, in 1885, after a heated political campaign, bonds were voted for public school buildings and a tax levied for maintaining a public school system. Today Durham has one of the finest public school plants of any city of its size, with physical property valued at more than $3,442,000, and with a personnel of teachers and management that gives it first rating among the cities of North Carolina.


VIEW OF MAIN STREET, LOOKING EAST


In 1892 Trinity College, now Duke University, was brought to Dur- ham through the philanthropy of Mr. Washington Duke and General Julian S. Carr. Today Duke University has a physical plant worth $20,000,000, 3,345 students, a 456-bed hospital. and ranks among the leading educational institutions of the nation.


As the tobacco industry grew and prospered, certain persons used some of their dividends in establishing cotton mills, and this industry soon assumed a position of importance in the industrial life of the city. Later hosiery mills were established, until today Durham ranks as the first city of the South in the manufacture of full-fashioned silk hosiery. Other industries were added from time to time, including flour mills, fertilizer plants, iron works, woodworking plants, printing establish- ments, etc., until in 1936 there are engaged in industry 13,100 Wage- earners, producing $160,336,003 worth of manufactured products annually. These industries pay into the Federal treasury approximately $70,000.000 each year. Durham today produces 24 per cent of all the cigarettes made in the United States.


In 1914 a program of civic improvement was undertaken, and al- though it was interrupted by the World War, it has now reached the point where' Durham has all the conveniences of a modern city, in- cluding complete sewerage, asphalt streets, paved sidewalks, electric power, gas, the latest dial telephone service, Western Union and Postal


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DUKE UNIVERSITY STADIUM, SEATING CAPACITY 40,000


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PART OF THE MAIN QUADRANGLE, DUKE UNIVERSITY, WEST CAMPUS


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Telegraph service, American Telephone & Telegraph repeater station, insuring rapid long-distance telephone communication; a fine recreation program, and a system of water works with an impounding reservoir sufficient to care for the needs of a city of 100,000 people.


Any story about Durham would be incomplete without mention of the notable contribution which the Negro race has made to the indus- trial, commercial and civic development of the community. The prog- ress the race has made here has been truly amazing. Under the leader- ship of E. R. Merrick. and later, C. C. Spaulding and their associates, Durham's colored people have established industries, insurance com- panies, banks and other commercial businesses which would be credit- able to any city. The labor which they furnish the city's industrial plants is intelligent and dependable. The high type of leaders among the colored people here has made Durham a conspicuous outpost in the advancement of Negro civilization.


One of the finest things about the founders of Durham is that material prosperity merely opened to them avenues of service to man- kind. It has been said that more philanthropists have been produced in Durham than in any other city of the South. Watts Hospital, of 210 beds. was a gift to the city and county by Mr. George W. Watts. Lincoln Hospital. of 108 beds. is largely the gift of Mr. Benjamin N. Duke. Duke University is a living memorial to Mr. Washington Duke and his two sons, Benjamin N. Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Other philanthropists have remembered the city from time to time in ways that help in making Durham a good place in which to live and work.




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