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A COUNTRY CLUB COMMUNITY FOR DURHAM, DUKE AND CHAPEL HIRE
HOPE VALLEY MEBANE & SHARPE Inc.
DEVELOPERS
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus $900,000.00
THE FIDELITY BANK DURHAM AND WEST DURHAM
RESOURCES OVER EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS
OFFICERS
JNO. F. WILY, President "D. KIRKLAND, Vice-President JONES FULLER, Vice-President and Trust Officer E. S. BOOTH, Cashier J. W. MUSERAsst Cihier
J. V. HUNDLEY, Manager West Durham Bratich
ESTABLISHED 1872
J. Southgate & Son
THOSESOUTHGATE
Insurance Specialists FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING PHONE F.4841
CHEEK-HOLTON MEG
GENERAL WOOD PRODUCT
SIOPTING CASES OUR SPEC LETT
...
S. BLACKNALL COR. RAILROAD.
PHONE L.6941
NEWPORT MANUFACTURING CO.
2
ROYAL W. SMITH FURNITURE
414 WEST MAIN STREET
YOUR HOME SHOULD COME FIRST
AGENTS FOR
SIMMONS BEDS AND SPRINGS
414 WEST MAIN STREET FIVE POINTS
PHONE F-7801
CASH OR CREDIT
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(1927) HILL DIRECTORY CO.'S
HILL'S
DURHAM
(N. C.)
CITY DIRECTORY 1927
EMBRACING AN ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF FIRMS, CORPORATIONS, PRIVATE CITIZENS, CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS, CHURCHES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, SECRET AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS, BANKS, AND A STREET AND HOUSEHOLDERS' DIRECTORY
A BUYERS' GUIDE
AND A COMPLETE
CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY
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VOL. XVI.
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PUBLISHERS
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., Publishers
Directory Library, Chamber of Commerce, 212 W. Main. R211
8 North Sixth Street (Fourth Floor) 1 - RICHMOND, VA.
Copyright, 1927, by Hill Directory Co., Inc.
RNC 975.605GENERAL INDEX H
254570
Page
Abbreviations .
48
Alphabetical Directory
49
Banks.
759
Buyers' Guide
13
Cemeteries.
765
Chamber of Commerce.
190
Churches.
765
City Government.
765
Classified Directory
753
Clergymen.
768
Clubs.
771
County Government.
160
Courts.
144
Elks.
Fire Department
Hospitals, Asylums and Homes.
791 7
Knights of Pythias
333
Libraries.
799 381
Modern Woodmen of America
604
Military
413
Odd Fellows
302
Parks.
808
Police Department.
145
Post Office
554
Preface.
9
Schools and Colleges ..
817
Street and Householders' Directory
613
United States Post Office.
554
Y. M. C. A
611
Y. W. C. A. DURHAM. COUNTY LIBRARY
612
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
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HILL DIRECTORY CO., INC., Publishers.
67 144
Index to Advertisers.
Junior Order U. A. M
324
Masonic Orders
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Allen & Allen.
27
Bain-Kimball-Milam Co.
39
Barker-Suggs Printery.
42 41
Blackley O R Plumbing Co
Blacknall R & Son.
left top lines and
32
Borden Brick & Tile Co.
left side lines and 24
Budd-Piper Roofing Co
. right side lines and
45 Z
Carolina Heating & Engineering Co.
Carpenter Motor Co
.right side lines and 17
Cheek-Holton Mfg Co Inc. .front cover and 24
Cheek & Belvin Brick Co right side lines and 23
Christian & Harward.
left side lines and 33
Citizens National Bank
back cover and
20 42
City Real Estate Co
right bottom lines and 47
Cole M O Coal Co.
Consolidated Construction & Building Co Inc.
left side lines and
Consolidated Laboratories Inc.
Darnall Saml F
Delamar C F.
left bottom lines and
Dermott Heating Co.
left top lines and
35 3
Durham Auction Co Inc.
43
Durham Awning & Tent Co.
right side lines and 18
Durham Business School. marginal line back cover and 25
Durham Dairy Products Co . right bottom lines and 31
Durham Granite Co
46
Durham Loan & Trust Co
left top lines and 18
Durham Paint Co marginal line back cover and 40
Durham Public Service Co. right top lines and Z 43 X Durham Realty & Insurance Co left top lines and
Durham Sun The
Eno Advertising Agency
right top lines and 15
Fidelity Bank The. front cover and 19
First National Bank
backbone and 20 First National Co
.right bottom lines and
44
Ford-Ballentine Co . marginal line front cover and 33
42
Gregory Sales Co Inc.
44
Hall-Wynne & White Inc
right top lines and
32 34
Harrell Mills P
Franklin Press The.
top stencil and 28 31 38 14 14
City Transfer Co
Duke University.
8
Harris Bros
Harris Dolian. . right side lines and 44 Haywood & Boone left bottom lines and 32 34 Hill Shepherd M
Home Insurance Agency Inc
right top lines and
38
Home Mortgage Co. left bottom lines and 39
Home Savings Bank
right side lines and 22
Hood System Industrial Bank The.
.right bottom lines and 21 left side lines and 35
Johnson Motor Co
left side lines and
Jourdan Transfer Co
left side lines and
Latta E J Roofing Co Inc.
bottom stencil and 45
Lawrence W H & T H.
right bottom lines and 31
McDonald Paint & Specialty Co
left top lines, 17 and
May David C
left side lines and
Mebane & Sharpe Inc.
marginal line front cover and
43 Y
Mechanics & Farmers Bank The.
front stencil and
21 Y
Merrick-McDougald-Wilson Co.
Miles Coal & Coke Co
right top lines and 29 39
Morris Plan Industrial Bank.
.right top lines and
Muirhead Wm Construction Co.
Newport Mfg Co marginal line front cover and
Nicholson Motor Co
Noell Bros Hardware Co.
right side lines and
O'Briant Lex E.
left side lines and 39
Orange Brick Co.
right bottom lines and
23
Parrish & Hooker
.right bottom lines and
41
Paschall Bros left bottom lines and
42
Piedmont Letter Shop Inc.
back cover and
Pullen A M & Co.
left top lines and
Rex Dry Cleaning Co.
marginal line back cover and 27
Rochelle S E.
.left side lines and
22
Rochelle's Battery & Ignition Service.
left side lines and
16 15
Sanitary Dry Cleaning Co
26
Southern Battery & Electric Co
.right side lines and Southgate J & Son
front cover and 38
Swift Motor Co Inc.
right side lines and 18 30
Thompson & Cannady
. back cover and
Tilley's Stores Inc.
right bottom lines and Tuttle Better Advertising.
backbone and Underwood Norman
30 36 37
Waverly Ice Cream Co Inc.
White R Shelton.
left top lines and 44
Woody E D
Zuckerman Solomon
marginal line front cover and 46 left side lines and 47
31 15
Washington Duke Hotel.
back cover, left bottom lines and Smith Royal W
2
16
Pritchard, Bright & Co
Quinn R E & Co
15 28 14 34
North Carolina Mutual Life Ins Co
22 29 25 17 35 37
Merchants Bank The.
Morris D Ashton.
40 34 40
Markham & Jones Co Inc.
Hotel Malbourne
16 47
41
Rose Agency The.
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Facts About Durham, N. C. (AS OF JUNE 1, 1927)
FURNISHED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Population, Census of 1920. 21,719
Special U. S. Census, September 24, 1925 42,258
Present estimate of population.
45,600
"Durham-Renowned the World Around" has given place, officially, as a slogan, to "The Bull City," "The Friendly City," "The Convention City" and now to "Durham- A Center of Education and Industry" since James B. Duke, as head of a great tobacco corporation, was plastering the Pyramids of Egypt, the Rock of Gibraltar and other points far and near with tobacco signs. The first slogan is characteristic of Durham, just as all the others enumerated are significant of the activities of one of North Caro- lina's leading and remarkable municipalities.
Durham was founded around the tobacco industry, her smoking tobaccos and cigar- ettes taking the name into practically every nation on the globe. In recent years another industry has become an important factor in her development. This is hosiery manufac- turing, this city claiming the largest hosiery manufacturing plant in the would, with a capacity of more than 100,000,000 pairs of hosiery a year, half a dozen smaller plants boosting this total to probably 115,000,000 pairs-full fashion and seamless.
The more recent "Center of Education and Industry" added to the name of Durham seems entirely appropriate, since it is in Durham that is being erected what is expected to be the greatest educational institution in America, certainly one of the largest and richest. James B. Duke, who has already made the city famous, made provision in his indenture creating the Duke Endowment of $40,000,000, and later in his will, for Duke University, an institution provided with a building and equipment fund of almost $25,000,- 000 and an ever increasing endowment of more than twice as much. This great uni- versity is now in process of development and will be completed within the next five years- but that is another story and is told more completely under another heading.
Needless to say, the Duke University building program, the first unit costing $5,000,- 000 and now nearing completion, and the second unit, costing $15,000,000, work on which is just starting, in addition to the $3,000,000 spent for sites, area and other requisites, has quickened the pulse of an already thriving community and has been the direct and indirect cause of great strides in municipal improvements, real estate developments, banking ex- pansion and numerous other activities that are and will be touched by the educational institution.
Lending further authority to Durham's claim as an educational center is the fact that within 60 miles of this city are found more than 75 per cent. of the educational institutions
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of the State of North Carolina and probably within that radius are 90 per cent. of the student population of the state, exclusive, in both instances, of the state public school system. Within ten miles, and connected by a beautiful concrete boulevard, is the Univer- sity of North Carolina, the oldest state university in the United States and one of the lead- ing educational institutions of the South.
Within the boundaries of the city are several other agencies of education and culture that are due more than passing mention. One is the Southern Conservatory of Music, which claims to be the equal of any in the country in thoroughness and extent, an entirely loca1 organization that each year has a student body numbering around 150 from all over the South. Another such institution is the Durham School of Music. The Durham Business School takes high rank among such institutions. The Durham public school system, with its four high schools, is second to none in the state and has enrolled among its students approximately 10,000 pupils, white and colored. The North Carolina College for Negroes, located within this city, is developing into an important school for negro boys and girls of the state, which took it over and made it a state institution two years ago.
Durham, however, had its beginning in industry-the tobacco industry-the start of which antedates the War Between the States. Two incidents happened in Durham during the closing days of that internal strife, each of which deserves a special paragraph.
BENNETT MEMORIAL
Three miles west of Durham stands a monument, marking a site of unusual historic interest. A few feet from the marker is an old rock chimney which served until about six years ago a house, built of logs. The tablet relates that in this house sat one spring day two mighty leaders; General Sherman, of the Federal forces, and General Johnston, of the Confederate army, on either side of a table, the central adornment of which was a bottle of whiskey from which they sipped sparingly. It was here that the terms of surrender of the Confederate forces to General Sherman were worked out, bringing to a close the Civil War, except for scattered fights along the Mississippi River.
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While the generals were settling the fate of the nation, the Yanks and Rebels were stationed in the vicinity, idling away the time with sports and forages. Some happened upon a small log building in which they found a stock of smoking tobacco. The word spread, and blue and gray, with united front, swooped down on the little storehouse, filling their pockets with the fragrant tobacco. J. R. Green, the owner, was practically ruined by the loss-temporarily. Hardly had the soldiers had time to reach their widely scattered homes after the war ended before letters, addressed to postmaster, station agent, mayor, constable and others known only by title, commenced to pour into Durham, all asking for ways of securing more of "that Durham tobacco."
That piece of accidental advertising not only more than recompensed the loser for his stolen stores, but actually was the beginning of the "making" of the tobacco industry in Durham, a beginning which has gradually increased through the years, until more than $100,000,000 is the present value of the tobacco products of this city. Last year the Dur- ham tobacco factories paid to the United States government approximately $48,000,000 in taxes for stamps used on tobacco manufactured here. Durham claims as a native the greatest tobacco genius in the nation, for the late James B. Duke, who as a youth worked in his father's little tobacco plant in this city, furnished the brains for organizing the great American Tobacco Company of earlier days and the British-American Tobacco Company and was president from the beginning of these two corporations for many years.
Developing during more recent years, hosiery manufacturing is rapidly becoming one of Durham's more important industrial activities. The late Julian S. Carr, Jr., was the founder of the largest hosiery group of plants in the world, with a capacity in excess of one hundred million (100,000,000) pairs of hosiery, full-fashioned and seamless, a year. The products of this plant find their way to every civilized country in the world. Only rec- ently the U. S. Navy placed an order for 400,000 pairs of cotton-wool socks, following closely another order for 300,000 pairs of cotton half-hose. Half a dozen other hosiery plants add to the total output and the weekly payrolls in the hosiery industry.
Almost a dozen textile mills turn out high grade cotton, silk, rayon and mixed pro- ducts, including sheetings, shirtings, ginghams, suitings, bed spreads, pillow cases and numerous other fabrics, including several of the novelty varieties. Textile mill products annually run in excess of $10,000,000. Several other industries, the largest of which is manufacturing small bags for tobacco and other products, help to round out a remunera- ative and continuously expanding industrial community.
Municipal activities have been particularly apparent during the past two years. The most important was the completion early last year of one of the most complete and modern water supply systems in the South. The project, including the erection of a huge dam on Flat River, six miles from the city at a cost of $1,600,000, gives Durham a water supply that would last the city three years, if not another drop of water should fall in this section during that period. Nine months' flow of the river was necessary to fill the huge impounding lake. The surplus water is sufficient, not only to supply power for operating the water system, but for sale to the local public service company.
Early last year the city started a public improvement program now nearing com- pletion, calling for an expenditure of approximately $2,500,000, including the paving of streets and sidewalks, laying water mains, and sewer lines, creating new through-traffic streets as a part of the State highway system, widening other streets, providing under- passes and bridges and other municipal activities. More than a million dollars of this amount was for street paving, with petitions for almost as much more street work await- ing the completion of the present program.
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AUDITORIUM
Slightly more than a year ago the City Auditorium, a modern theatre building, was completed and opened, with a seating capacity of 2,200. Since that time numbers of con- ventions, legitimate shows and Durham's annual Grand Opera events have been presented in the handsome structure. About a year and a half ago, also, Durham's no less than wonderful hotel, containing 300 rooms and 300 baths, the largest and most magnificent in the State, was completed and opened. This hotel, costing approximately $1,700,000, has been the headquarters for about 35 conventions during the past 15 months, with about 20 scheduled for this year, practically all as much as state-wide in their scope, others taking in even greater territory. At one time, during the District Rotary Conference last year, the hotel fed 1,100 persons at one time. This hotel, with the Malbourne, which recently spent $40,000 in a complete refurnishing program, and several smaller ones, is responsible for Durham's slogan of "The Convention City."
Fully $3,000,000 has been spent in Durham during the past five-year period for church construction and improvement of church property. Other than the fact that the city has an abundance of modern churches and is composed of a church-going population, the most interesting church step has been taken in the erection of a rural church near the city, which is a model church construction. Most of the funds for "Duke's Chapel" was provided by Benjamin N. Duke and the Duke Endowment, the total cost being $50,000. The edifice is erected from stone taken from Duke University's quarry 15 miles away, the same quarry that will furnish stone for the 40 massive buildings of the greater University unit, from plans drawn by the University's architect and erected by the Uni- versity's supervising contractor. It is a memorial to the older brother of Washington Duke, father of James B. and Benjamin N. Duke, namely, William Duke, who built the log church nearly 100 years ago, in which his nephews received their early religious training.
Recently Durham has adopted a city plan and complete zoning system, expected to correct some of the mistakes already made in city planning, and to serve as a basis for fin-
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ally developing a city along broad and comprehensive lines. In this connection, although not caused by the plan, it might be well to state that the Southern Railway has recently built shifting yards, roundhouse and other facilities in the western section of the city, as a step in this road's extensive freight-handling improvements to be made in Durham during . the next few years.
While figures are sometimes dry reading, it often takes them to show what manner of a place a city is and recourse to them is sought for this purpose. now.
In the first place, Durham has two national, two industrial, six state and one joint stock land bank, with combined surplus and undivided profits of $4,000,000, deposits of $20,000,000 and total assets of $30,000,000. Last year these banks showed debits of $355,516,897.82, an increase of more than $49,000,000 over 1925; clearings of $106,378,- 688.94, the one-year increase exceeding $6,000,000; and payrolls of the larger corpora- tions of $9,295,458.87-increase of more than a quarter of a million dollars over 1925.
Building permits, also a good index, amounted to $3,371,000 in 1926, as compared with $2,175,000 (exclusive of one $3,000,000 permit secured by Duke University) in 1925, al- most double the amount of the year before. Business buildings last year numbered 141, costing $2,194,608, while residences numbered 470, costing $1,176,396. Postal receipts amounted to $183,512.00 in 1926, as compared with $166,648.32 in 1925, or an increase of 11 per cent.
Although Durham is located 170 miles from the seashore, the City is one of the greatest ports of entry in the South. Customs collections paid on foreign goods received at the Durham port amounted last year to $1,518,192.12, an increase of approximately 30 per cent. over 1925. This port has shown remarkable growth since it was opened about five years ago. The foreign goods received include European tobaccos, cigarette papers and other constituents of cigarettes and smoking tobaccos.
Durham is known primarily as "a working man's town," but recreational activities are not neglected entirely. Three miles from the city is being completed one of the nicest country club developments in the State. The roof has already been placed on the $60,- 000 club house, said to be one of the most attractive and unusual for the price that has ever been built, while play will start with the opening of spring on a $50,000 Donald Ross golf course. The membership of the club is composed of members of the faculties of Duke University, two miles from the club house, and of the University of North Carolina, six miles away, and of the citizens of Durham generally.
Already the city has two golf courses, the Hillandale, privately owned, with 18 holes, and the Forest Hills, with nine holes.
Last year, early in the season, El Toro park, home of the Durham Bulls, club of the Piedmont baseball league, was completed, giving this city one of the finest baseball parks in the South. At its dedication, Kenesaw Mountain Landis pitched the first ball, which was caught-at by Governor Angus Wilton McLean, of North Carolina, after His Excel- lency had led around the field a huge red bull, the club's mascot, with the high commis- sioner of baseball astride his broad back.
The Durham Woman's club has recently occupied a modern club house, while a Young Women's Christian Association building, constructed along modern lines, has just been completed giving this organization a home to take the place of the one outgrown. The Young Men's Christian Association is making plans for a still larger structure not so close in from the sale of the present valuable property.
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Durham has four very active civic clubs, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and American Busi- ness Clubs, all contributing their part to the development and growth of the city. An active Chamber of Commerce leads in such activities, while practically all of the main professions and business groups have their associations, in addition to the social organi- zations usually found in a city of Durham's size and conditions.
The growth of Durham has been rapid, but substantial, based along broad and solid industrial lines. Records show that in 1870 Durham was a community of 256 souls. Thirty years later the number had increased to 6,679, while the next decade saw it treble. In 1920 the U. S. Census report showed a population of 21,719. It was during the next five-year period that Durham passed from the town to the city class, by extending her limits to take in two populous suburbs, so that the Government census of 1925 showed a population of 42,258. The Census bureau estimates of 1926 increased the number to 43,900, giving Durham fourth place among the cities of North Carolina.
During the next ten years the city should show greater progress than during any like period in its history. The great Duke University building program will have been completed and the institution will be functioning fully before the end of that period. Many of the great developments that will follow in its wake, some now in the minds of men, others not yet thought of, will be completed or well under way. By every means avail- able of forecasting the future, Durham has one of the best opportunities of any city in North Carolina, state of wonderful possibilities, of becoming a large, prosperous and populous city.
BRIEF FACTS ABOUT DURHAM ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED
Altitude-406 feet above sea-level.
Area-12.8 square miles.
Automobiles
Passenger cars in county January 1st., 1926,
7,042
Passenger cars in county January 1st., 1927,.
7,604
Trucks in county January 1st., 1926,
794
Trucks in county January 1st., 1927,
850
Banks
1916
1921
1926
1927
Capital, surplus and undi-
vided profits
.$1,600,950
$ 2,673,075
$ 3,378,290
$ 3,386,009.30
Deposits.
5,910,730
9,258,030
18,306,703
20,536,767.77
Total resources
8,392,690
17,309,844
26,622,670
26,163,454.67
Trust department resources (not included in above)
1,536,502.65
Industrial Banks-1926
Capital, surplus and undivided profits
$ 267,801.25
Loans and discounts. 925,095.77
Total resources, . 1,004,840.55
Building And Loan Associations
Year
No
Assets.
1915
1
$ 196,199.01
1925
5
2,756,019.58
1926
5
3,143,334.42
(A new one just organized)
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DURHAM COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Building Permits
Year
Number
Value
1923
360
$1,462,530
1924
305
3,002,330
1925
531
5,172,302
1926.
611
3,371,004
Building permits for 1925 included $3,000,000 for the first unit of Duke University. Owing to the methods used for arriving at these figures, it is conservatively estimated that the true figures will exceed those given above by 25%.
Churches-Seventy-four churches embracing practically all denominations. Durham is noted for its many beautiful church buildings.
City Incorporated-The city of Durham was incorporated by act of the General Assembly ratified April 10th., 1869.
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