500 WARREN STREET (WEST)

The long western side of the 500 block of Warren St. (because Yancey went no further east than Willard) stretched between Willard and Jackson Streets.

500 block of Willard, looking northwest, ~1950.
(Courtesy Herald Sun)

Moving south to north.

530 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

526 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

524 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

520 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

518 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

516 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

514 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

512 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

510 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

508 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

506 Warren, 1965
(Courtesy Durham County Library)

These houses were torn down by the city of Durham in 1967 using urban renewal funds. Warren Street was closed and absorbed into a giant parcel that became the Alexander Ford Car Dealership.

Approximate location of the west side of the 500 block of Warren Street, 02.10.08.

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3 Responses to “500 WARREN STREET (WEST)”

Anonymous Says:
March 6, 2008 at 3:24 pm | Reply
Seeing these photos, from this now extinct neighborhood, really underscores that fact that Durham was really like so many other towns in North Carolina. This type of architecture is still very prevalent in the eastern part of our state, towns without huge “urban renewal” budgets didn’t remove all their ecletic housing. Ironically its neighborhoods like this one that are now driving urban restoration and are considered jewels in other urban areas. These losses of middle income sturdy housing stock are very sad, especially when one thinks about what replaced them and where the residents were forced to move. Alas!

dtd
MK Says:
March 9, 2008 at 11:45 am | Reply
Somehow replacing a neighborhood of houses that could have been restored with a huge car dealership in the middle of town does not seem like a worthy example of urban renewal.
Gary Says:
March 9, 2008 at 12:14 pm | Reply
MK

Indeed. And if you can find a worthy example of urban renewal perpetrated by the Urban Renewal program, I’d be surprised.

GK

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