313 Dunstan Ave. – Major Geer House

35.979098, -78.901777

313
Durham
NC
Year built
1940
Architectural style
Construction type
National Register
Neighborhood
Use
Building Type
Local ID
118350
State ID
DH3120
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This one-story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and triple-pile with a wide front gable on the right end of the façade, a projecting side-gabled wing on the west elevation, flush with the façade, and a shed-roofed rear ell. The house has a painted brick foundation, vinyl siding, and two interior brick chimneys. The house retains a three-light-over-two-panel door, but has replacement vinyl windows. An inset porch on the left end of the projecting front gable is supported by decorative metal posts; the concrete stoop with metal railing extends beyond the porch roof to the far left end of the façade. A low stone wall extends across the front and west sides of the property and a wood ramp has been added to the front of the house. County tax records date the building to 1940; the earliest known occupants were Major Geer (custodian, W. D. Hill Community Center) and his wife, Hattie, a cosmetologist, in 1945.

 

 

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