Hello Friends, Just wanted to share a couple of fun pictures. saw a beautiful, double rainbow from my current office last week. Plus a picture of me and two of the Carpe Diem gang hanging out at the building. Have a GREAT week!
The history of 801 Gilbert Street and the immediate neighborhood is one of thriving commercial, industrial, and agricultural activity. 801 Gilbert was built around 1917 and purchased in 1919 by Julian Carr, Durham tobacco and hosiery baron. He named the building for his "right-hand man" (and former Carr family slave) John O'Daniel. O'Daniel was one of the earliest African-American landowners in Hayti. He likely handled for Carr the recruitment and hiring of African-American mill employees. After Carr's death, the building became a farmers' cooperative that had 900 members by 1935. “Curb markets” thrived there, where primarily women sold "poultry, eggs, baked and pickled goods, fresh flowers and vegetables." The Farmers' Exchange shut down in the 1980's. In the 1990's, "Cobra," a Hispanic nightclub operated in the building. The site has had little commercial activity since. Lewis & Clark chose 801 Gilbert to be a business center to see strong neighborhood commercial activity restored, in the form of businesses owned and operated by those within the community. The Cleveland-Holloway District, is experiencing the benefits of revitalization both commercially and residentially.
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