KRONHEIMER HOUSE
Kronheimer House, 1925.
Benjamin Franklin Kronheimer built the Kronheimer Department Store at 315 West Main St. around ~1900 ; Kronheimer built his Renaissance Revival residence in Trinity Park in the early to mid 1920s . Kronheimer only lived in the house a few years, as he died in 1938.
Kronheimer House, 1980.
Unfortunately, I can find little or nothing in the secondary sources about Kronheimer or Kronheimer's beyond this - if anyone wishes to do the primary research to expound upon this information, please feel free to comment.
Kronheimer House, 10.03.09
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Minerva sure has some pretty on it.
BTW: until I clicked on the map, I didn't realize that alleys in Trinity Park had numbers to them. Makes sense. I just didn't realize there was a labeling system more than "alley between Minerva and Gloria"
Beautiful house!
Interesting note about the alleys! I looked up all of them - there are a lot more than I realized:
1 Alley: between Broad, F, Clarendon, and W Club
2 Alley: between 9th, W Club, Iredell, and W Knox
3 Alley: between Iredell, W Club, Broad, and Englewood
4 Alley: between Broad, Green, Clarendon, and W Markham
5 Alley: between Clarendon, Green, Sedgefield, and W Markham
6 Alley: between Onslow, Englewood, Lancaster, and W Markham
7 Alley: between Lancaster, Englewood, N Buchanan, and W Markham
8 Alley: between 9th, W Markham, Iredell, and Perry
9 Alley: between 9th, W Markham, Iredell, and 8 Alley
10 Alley: between Iredell, W Markham, Broad, and Perry
11 Alley: between Watts, Urban, N Duke, and Dacian
12 Alley: between N Buchanan, Urban, Watts, and Dacian
13 Alley: between N Buchanan, Dacian, N Duke, and Monmouth
14 Alley: between N Buchanan, Monmouth, N Duke, and W Trinity
15 Alley: between N Buchanan, W Trinity, N Gregson, and Minerva
16 Alley: between N Buchanan, Minerva, N Gregson, and Gloria
17 Alley: between Watts, Gloria, N Gregson, and Lamond
18 Alley: between Ripley, Gunter, Rosedale, and W Lakewood
19 Alley: not found in Google Maps
20 Alley: not found in Google Maps
21 Alley: bisects Carolina Circle (see http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=21+Alley,+Durham,+NC&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.089062,56.777344&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=21+Alley,+Durham,+North+Carolina+27707&ll=35.980159,-78.909334&spn=0.00257,0.003465&z=18)
22 Alley: not found in Google Maps
23 Alley: not found in Google Maps (but there is a Trail 23 off Surrey Green Ln)
24 Alley: between N Mangum, W Parrish, N Church, and E Main
25 Alley: between N Corcoran, E Chapel Hill, W Orange, and W Parrish
26 Alley: between N Corcoran, E Chapel Hill, W Orange, and W Parrish
27 Alley (aka McCollum Alley): between Rigsbee, Hunt, N Mangum, and W Seminary
28 Alley: between Dillard, E Main, S Elizabeth, and E Peabody
29 Alley: between Glendale, W Knox, Acadia, and W Markham
30 Alley: between Acadia, E Knox, N Magnum, and W Markham
31 Alley: not found in Google Maps
32 Alley: between N Roxboro, Knox, Vista, and E Markham
33 Alley: between Hardee, Holloway, Herbert, and Liberty
34 Alley: not found in Google Maps
35 Alley: between S Driver, Angier, Salem, and E Peabody
36 Alley: not found in Google Maps
37 Alley (aka Buchanan Alley): between Carroll, Yancey, Arnette, and Morehead
I used to park my car along here when I went to Durham High. Even as a teenaged boy with absolutely NO interests in design or style, I realized this was a special house. I am curious to know what became of the Kronheimers...Any descendants? Any family or friends still in the area? Any idea what the house was like in the 1930's - 1940's?
House was designed by Raleigh architect R. Murray Nelson. Looks like it could be on Beverly Hills 90210!
I have a complete history of the Kronheimer family.Ben was my great uncle.There are many members of the family still living.They are the descendants of two of the Kronheimer daughters,Fannye and Minnie. Minnie married William Guthrie Frasier of Durham.He was the owner of Jones and Frasier Jewelry Co on Main Street.
I Googled Benjamin Franklin Kronheimer and found a reference to his 1938 death in VA: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/lcfh/nameresults1.asp?NAV=46&TXTNAME=
I think, anyway.
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