200 WATTS - WEST SIDE

200 block of Watts St., west side, looking south - 1926. The Beverly Apartments are visible at the end of the block.


Same block, 07.26.10

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GODWIN SINCLAIR - LAMOND AND GREGSON

(Still frame from H. Lee Waters' 1940 film of Durham)
(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

The Pate-Williams service station was built in the late 1930s on the southwest corner of Lamond Ave. and N. Gregson St. By 1950. the station was known as Godwin Sinclair.


(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

By 1960, it was known as Stephenson's Service Center.

Currently, there is a multitenant building on the site - I don't know whether the building is new or a partial incorporation of the old service station.


Looking southwest, Lamond and N. Gregson, 2007.


Looking southwest, Lamond and N. Gregson, 05.04.10

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DURHAM MISSIONARY ALLIANCE CHURCH

Durham Christian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Tabernacle, 1927
Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection)

The Durham Christian and Missionary Alliance Gospel Tabernacle built the masonry brick structure on the corner of North Gregson and Lamond Ave. in 1927. The Durham congregation had been established in 1889.

Between 1898 and 1900, the church built a frame structure on the southwest corner of Morgan and Morris Streets. The church incorporated in 1917; this building served the church until the structure on N. Gregson was completed in 1927 - the former structure was torn down and replaced with a service station/car repair facility, which was later torn down and replaced with a curvy Morgan St. and parking for the First Federal/Southbank building.


Durham Alliance Church, 1950s
(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

In 1976, 37 members of the church left to form a new congregation in northern Durham on Umstead Road - this congregation still exists as the Faith Alliance of Durham.

The church on Gregson later (I don't know when) became known as Trinity Community Church.


Trinity Community Church, 12.09.07

I'm not sure when they vacated the building (or whether they are the same congregation that now seems to be located in Cary) but the building is now used by Reality Ministries.


Looking southwest, 05.04.10


Looking northwest, 05.04.10

[For any of you that have read Joel Kostyu's book, the top picture is mislabeled as the synagogue on Liberty St. - it appears to have been mislabeled on the back of the photo by Wyatt Dixon]

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