312 Dunstan Ave. – William Washington House

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and double-pile with a gabled rear ell on the southeast corner. It has a painted brick foundation, molded wood weatherboards, and an exterior brick chimney on the east elevation. The house retains original six-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows, including paired windows on the façade and in the gable ends, and a six-light-over­three-panel front door. A projecting, front-gabled porch on the left end of the façade is supported by tapered wood posts on painted brick piers and has a brick stair with brick knee walls and a metal railing. A rectangular wooden vent is located in the porch gable. The earliest known occupant is William Washington (laborer, Liggett & Myers) in 1940; the house was listed with a 400 Dunstan Street address prior to 1945. Washington’s daughter, Beverly Washington Jones, became a professor of history at UNC, then provost and head of the History Department at NCCU; she co-authored the book Durham’s Hayti.