1122-1124 BROAD
Looking west towards W. Club and Broad St., May 1938.
1122-1124 Broad was built in the early 1930s, and initially housed Hospital Pharmacy and a branch of the (Great) A&P (Tea Company.) 1122 became a Purity Stores branch grocery by 1941.
It remained this until 1960, when it became a Durham Bank and Trust Co. branch. When DB&T became CCB via merger, the
branch followed suit. It remained a bank branch into the 1990s.
Currently it houses Stage 1 Salon. 
1122-1124 Broad, 07.26.09
No offense intended to the business, which I know nothing about, but I thought I had seen just about every misuse of the should-be-banned-from-existence palladian window with fake muntins, but on a 1930s masonry commercial structure is new one for me.. I think the fake shutters mounted outside the protruding brick surrounds on the side is the capper.
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Regarding the palladian windows with fake muntins, aren't the windows themselves fake? In other words, can you see in/out?
They are applied to the outside of the building yes - I remember when they went up. That's why the backside of the glass is painted black.
I should have wondered why it was always dark inside - I just thought the windows were heavily tinted. Which I guess they are - very heavily.
GK
That first picture of 1122-1124 Broad st is actually taken on Club
Blvd at Iredell st. looking east towards the intersection of Broad and Club. I was living on Clarendon st in the 60's and used to go to Eckerds and the pharmacy that was at 1124 Broad st. I think the bank eventually took over the whole building.
Later,
Rob
i love the architecture, but once again, you don't comment on the people in the pictures. last week there was a ghost, this week, its a one-legged woman casually walking/hopping down the side of the street. where do you get these mysterio pictures?
there is also a door on the other side of the building that goes straight to brick
oops
I think the doorway on West Club must have been bricked up for the bank. The corner of the building at the intersection was then used as a walk-in vault.
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