1601 Lincoln Street – M. Fields Carr House

This one-story, front-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile with a shed-roofed rear ell at northeast corner. The house has a painted brick foundation, vinyl siding, and two interior chimneys. It has replacement doors and windows, but retains knee braces in the gable ends. The hip-roofed front porch is supported by tapered posts on brick piers with granite caps and has a replacement wood railing between the piers; it is accessed by a brick stair with brick knee walls. The house is listed as vacant is the 1935 city directory; the earliest known occupant is M. Fields Carr (cashier, N C Mutual Life Insurance Company) in 1940.