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Places in Peril 2014: Police Headquarters Building

Police Headquarters Building Why it’s important: In the mid-1950s, John Sprunt Hill was persuaded by his son and grandson to hire Raleigh modernist Milton Small famed Italian architect Aldo Rossi to design a sleek new headquarters building for their Home Security Life Insurance Company, then located in the eponymous Read more…

By info@preservationdurham.org, 9 years6 years ago

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Places in Peril 2013: Carpenter Motor Company

Why It’s Important: Carpenter Motor Company at 600 E. Main Street is the only commercial building left on three blocks of downtown’s main thoroughfare. The county demolished the 500 block of East Main for a surface parking lot in 2008, and eight buildings were lost during this demolition, including the Read more…

By info@preservationdurham.org, 10 years8 years ago