The building at Hillsboro/Morgan is the old Staudt Bakery. The Staudts began operating a bakery in Raleigh in the 1910s. This building was put up ca. 1940 and was very “modern” for its time. (It’s been vacant for decades.) The Staudt family home, a substantial brick house, stood up on the corner @ Hillsboro St. where a small parking lot is now. It was demolished in the late 1970s when when Morgan St was converted to one-way and the traffic connector put in, usurping the old Harrison Ave., which once occupied this route. You can still see a small section of Harrison Ave. down by the tracks at Charlie Goodnight’s building (which was originally built as an ice plant and icecream factory BTW).

A friend and I broke into the Broom & Mattress factory not too long before John Morris came by and snapped the pictures. At that time it was owned by the state. There was running water, working light fixtures, and tons of heat emanating from the central boiler room. It appeared to have been subdivided with one half occupied by some (fairly recent) appliance repair shop, and the other filled with lots of old medical equipment and records, along with a machine shop. We couldn’t find any records of other businesses at that address.