500 WARREN STREET (EAST)

Warren Street ran just to the west of the old Morhead School, between Jackson Street and Willard Street, which it met at an acute angle.

The eastern side of the street consisted of relatively few houses, given the presence of the Morehead School to the north and two American Tobacco warehouses to the south. But between Portland Avenue and the playground of the Morehead School were 6 houses. Moving south to north:

527 Warren, 1965 – on the corner of Warren and Portland Avenue.
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

525 Warren, 1965.
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

523 Warren, 1965.
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

521 Warren, 1965.
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

519 Warren, 1965.
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

517 Warren, 1965.
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

These houses, and everything else around them, were torn down in 1967 by the city using urban renewal funds.

Looking north up Warren Street, 1967. The side gable of 527 Warren is visible on the right side of the street.
(Courtesy Herald-Sun)

Warren Street was closed to form a great big parcel for the Alexander Ford Motor company – renewal, indeed.

Looking east at where the 500 block of Warren St. used to be (the houses would have been about where the white warehouses are) 02.10.08

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