Historic Parrish Street Durham NC
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N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. Headquarters. ca. 1930

N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. Headquarters. ca. 1930. Building housed what was to become the largest black-owned insurance company in the world.

History of Parrish Street

History of Parrish Street


Ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of shared office space for Preservation Durham and the Parrish Street Advocacy Group (PSAG) on July 1, 2007.



Photo of grand opening of shared office space of Preservation Durham and the Parrish Street Advocacy Group on July 1, 2007.

From left to right: William V. “Bill” Bell – Mayor of Durham; Nathan Garrett, CPA, Esq. (Retired), Chairman, Parrish Street Advocacy Group; Dr. John Hope Franklin, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University and Chairman, Emeritus of the PSAG and Ellen Dagenhart, President, Preservation Durham.