Hill's Durham (North Carolina) City Directory [1929], Part 1

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Publication date: 1929
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 796

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HILL'S DURHAM (NORTH CAROLINA) CITY DIRECTORY Vol. 1929 XVIII

Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Office Buildings and Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide; also a

BUYERS' GUIDE

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Classified Business Directory

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The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the cor- rectness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors and omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.

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GENERAL INDEX

Page

Abbreviations

.60

Advertisers-Index

Alphabetical List of Names

Apartment Buildings

730

Associations and Clubs-Commercial

731

Banks

734

Building and Loan Associations

738

Buildings-Office and Public

738

Business Directory (Classified)

729

Buyers' Guide

Cemeteries

740

Chamber of Commerce

197

Churches

740

City Courts

152

City Fire Department.

152

City Officials 152

152

Clergymen

742

Clubs

745

County Officials

166

Halls

761

Hospitals

762

Introduction

Libraries

772

Newspapers

776

Parks

780

Population

Preface

Schools-Public 787

Schools and Colleges. 787

Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders 597

United States Post Office 540

City Police Department.

Homes and Asylums 762

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Bain-Kimball-Milam Co. .

Bankers Securities Corporation right bottom lines and 32

Belmore Co. The left top lines and 42 Blacknall R & Son left top lines and 41 Blalock, Beck & Poe 36 Borden Brick & Tile Co. marginal line front cover and 34 55 Budd-Piper Roofing Co. right side lines and Z Carolina Heating & Engineering Co. Carpenter Motor Co. right side lines and 28 Cash Coal Co. 38 56 Cates J. B. & Son Check Insurance Agency right top lines and Christian & Harward left side lines and 47 43 57 City Transfer Co. marginal line back cover and 52 Clements W. Wallace Cole L. G. Inc. Cole Mose O. Inc. back cover and 52 37 Consolidated Construction & Bldg Co. left top lines and Delamar Christopher F. left bottom lines and 40 Duke University 26 3 Dunaway Inc. marginal line back cover, 27 and 52 Durham Auction Co. Inc. 52 Durham Bond & Mortgage Co. 49 Durham Builders Supply Co. 35 Durham College of Commerce .marginal line back cover and 36 Durham Dairy Products Inc. left top lines and 41 Durham Electric Construction Co. left bottom lines and 41 Durham Glass Works marginal line back cover and 43 Durham Paint Co. left side lines and 48 51 Durham Public Service Co. .right top lines and Z 53

Durham Laundry Co.

Durham Realty & Insurance Co. left top lines, 32 and

front cover and

First National Bank backbone and

Greater Durham Building & Loan Assn

right bottom lines and

Gregory Sales Co. Inc.

Griggs & Couch Inc.

Griswold Insurance & Real Estate Co. left side lines and

Hall-Wynne & White Inc.

right top lines and

Harris Bros.

Harris Dolian

right side lines and

Haywood & Boone

right bottom lines and

Holbrook Motor Co. right top lines and

Home Insurance Agency Inc.

Home Mortgage Co.

left bottom lines and 49 33

Home Savings Bank

right top lines and

Hotel Malbourne

left top lines and

Johnson Motor Co.

left side lines and

Jourdan Transfer

left side lines and

Kane Geo. W.

front cover and

Latta E. J. Roofing Co. Inc.

bottom stencil and

Lednum Lubricating Co.

Lester Motors

Lochmoor Hotel

Martha Washington Tea Room

May D C

. marginal line front cover and

Maytag Link & Sons

.right bottom lines and

Mechanics & Farmers Bank The

Merchants Bank The

front stencil and

Montgomery's Florist

Morris Plan Industrial Bank

right top lines and 33

Muirhead Wm Construction Co

.top stencil and 39

Murdock J A Co

. back cover and 46

New Hope Realty Co

.right bottom lines and

Newport Manufacturing Co.

marginal line front cover and

34 29

Nicholson Motor Co

Noell Bros Hardware Co

North Carolina Mutual Life Ins. Co.

right side lines and

36 47

44 28 58 38 55 40 50 29 44 54 50 58 Y 32 42

Lawrence T. H.

right bottom lines and

31 30 35 53 28 48 42 51 53 41 27 48

Fidelity Bank The

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Nurkins-Jakes Place

Page 36

Paschall Bros.

left bottom lines and 51

Perry W P

Piedmont Letter Shop Inc

Pritchard, Bright & Co

.back cover and

Pullen A M & Co

Ray C D & Son

.right bottom lines and

Redford J Beverly

. left side lines and

Reeves American Inn

left side lines and

Rochelle Sidney E.

left side lines and

Rose Agency Inc The

left side lines and

Service Electric Shoe Shop

Shearer W. O. Motor Co. Inc.

left side lines and

Smith Royal W

Southern Battery & Electric Co . left side lines and

Southern Paint & Glass Co left bottom lines and 51

Southgate J & Son Inc

left side lines and

Thompson & Cannady

. back cover and

Tyson Geo F

right side lines and

Underwood Norman

backbone and

Vickers Motor Co

front cover and

40 30 45 47

Waverly Ice Cream Co Inc

White R Shelton

.left top lines and

Woody E D Roofing Co

. marginal line front cover and

Zuckerman Solomon

left side lines and 57

MORE GOODS

ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS LISTS OF THE: DIRECTORY. THAN ANY OTHER MEDIUM ON EARTH

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INTRODUCTION

HILL DIRECTORY CO., publishers of the Durham City Direc- tory, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1929 edition of the Durham Directory.

Confidence in the growth of Durham's wealth, industry and popu- lation, and in the advancement of its municipal and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting Durham to the world.

The enviable place occupied by HILL'S directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes, has been established by rendering the best in direc- tory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and resi- dents, 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.

Population

The estimated population of Durham is 51,966, based on the number of individuals' names in the alphabetical section of the directory, with due allowance for children and for women whose names are not listed separately from those of their husbands. Territory immediately adja- cent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the directory.

Four Major Departments

The several essential 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 pro- fessional interests of Durham. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The ad- vertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are in- dexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best and, as such, merits a survey by all buyers anxious to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The city's activities, in many interesting phases, are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and progressive community like Durham, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is very great and, frequently, pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 61 to 594. Features of this section are the inclusion of the wife's name in parentheses following that of the husband, and the identification of colored persons with the mark "(c)".

THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, covers pages 597 to 727. In this section the nam- ed streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order, followed by the numbered streets; the residents and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.

THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 729 to 794. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.

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Municipal Publicity

The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial 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, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.

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 the 450 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.

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.

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1929

FACTS ABOUT DURHAM, N. C.

(As of June 1, 1929) 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 48,800

"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 Industry and Education," since James B. Duke, as head of a great tobacco corporation, was plas- tering 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 activi- ties of one of North Carolina's leading and remarkable municipalities.

Five Points looking east.

Durham was founded around the tobacco industry, its smoking tobacco and cigarettes taking the name into practically every nation on the globe. In recent years another industry has become an important factor in Durham's development. This is hosiery manufacturing, this city claiming the largest hosiery manufacturing plant in the world, 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 Industry and Education" 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 institu- tion 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 endow- ment of more than twice as much. This great university is now ,in process of development and will be completed within the next two 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, now completed, and the second unit, costing $15,000,000, well under way, in addition to the $3,000,000 spent for sites, area and other requisites, has quickened the pulse of an already thriving

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community and has been the direct and indirect cause of great strides in municipal improvements, real estate developments, banking expan- sion, 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 sixty miles of this city are found more than 75 per cent of the educational institutions of the state of North Carolina, and probably within that radius is 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 University of North Carolina, the oldest state univer- sity in the United States and one of the leading 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 local organ- ization 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 College of Commerce takes high rank among in- stitutions of its kind. The Durham public school system, with its four high schools, is second to none in the state and has enrolled approxi- mately 11,000 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 four years ago.

Durham, however, had its beginnings in industry-the tobacco in- dustry-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.

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, until recent years, served a house built of logs. The tablet relates that in this house, one spring day, sat two mighty leaders, General Sherman of the Federal forces, and General Johnston of the Confederate army, on opposite sides 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 desultory skirmishes along the Mississippi River.

Bennett Memorial, marking the spot where General Johnston sur- rendered to General Sherman, April 26th, 1865, bringing to a close the Civil War.

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While the two generals were thus helping to settle the fate of the nation, the Yanks and Rebels were stationed in the vicinity, idling away their time with sports and forages. Some of them 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 Dur- ham tobacco."

That piece of accidental advertising not only more than recom- pensed 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 Durham tobacco factories paid to the United States Government ap- proximately $50,000,000 in taxes for stamps used on tobacco manu- factured here. Durham claims as a native the greatest tobacco genius in the nation, fo rthe lat James B. Duke who ac a youth worker 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 group of hosiery plants in the world, with a capacity in excess of 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. 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 products, such as sheetings, shirtings, ginghams, suitings, bed spreads, pillow cases and numerous other fabrics, including several of the novelty varieties. The value of textile mill products runs in excess of $10,000,000 annually. Several other industries, the largest of which is the manufacture of small bags for tobacco and other products, help to round out a remunerative and continuously expanding industrial community.

Municipal activities have been particularly apparent during the past four years. The most important was the finishing in 1926 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 sup- ply sufficient to last the city for 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 great impounding lake. The sur- plus water is sufficient, not only to supply power for operating the water system, but for sale to the local public service company.

Slightly more than three years ago the City Auditorium, now known as the Carolina Theatre, a modern theatre building, with a seating capacity of 2,200, was completed and opened. Since that time numbers of conventions, legitimate shows and Durham's annual grand opera events, have been presented in the handsome structure. About three and a half years ago 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 approxi- mately $1.700,000, has been the headquarters for about thirty-five con- ventions during the last eighteen months, practically all as much as statewide in their scope, others taking in even greater territory. This hotel, with the Malbourne and several smaller ones, is responsible for Durham's slogan: "The Convention City."

Fully $4,000,000 has been spent in Durham during the past six-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 feature is represented in the steps 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" were 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, fifteen miles away, the same quarry that furnishes stone for the forty massive buildings of the greater university unit, from plans drawn by the uni-

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versity's architect and erected by the university's supervising contractor. This church is a memorial to the older brother of Washington Duke, father of James B. and Benjamin N. Duke, namely, William Duke, who, nearly 100 years ago, built the log church in which his nephews received their early religious training.

Recently Durham has adopted a city-plan and complete zoning system, which is expected to correct some of the mistakes already made in city-planning and finally to serve as a basis for 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 facili- ties 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.

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Hill's Durham (North Carolina) City Directory [1929], Part 1

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1929 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 796

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1929
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 796