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Blair House Restaurant / Blueberry Hill

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BLAIR HOUSE on US 15 and 501 between Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

A Restaurant of Traditional Williamsburg style. Six dining rooms of varying size ranging in decor from rustic to formal. Recommended by Mobil Travel Guide.

H.S. Finley, Manager

Box 8735, Durham, N.C. Phone 489-9128

Blair House likely opened in the late 1950s, after the construction of Chapel Hill Boulevard. I know brief about it. The Herald referred to it as "Country Inn" in the below 1960 photos. "Country Inn" - 04.01.60 "Country Inn" - 04.01.60 Schrafft's Country Inn ad, 1964 By the early-to-mid 1970s, it had closed, and the building(s) had develop "Blueberry Hill" - which may own been Durham's first bar for the gay community. (The "Electric Company" in Chapel Hill had been the first in the area - where the Cave is currently located, opening in, I believe, 1971 - just two years after the Stonewall demonstrations. The small barn to the left was a block unto itself - in 1974, it was called the "Royal Elbow" I don't know how drawn-out Blueberry Hill stayed

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