Contemporary

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcodronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 The stacked, wood-sash awning windows and Roman brick veneer on the façade give this house a more modern appearance than other houses on Cecil Street. The one-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and triple-pile with wood shingles on the side...

1-story Contemporary-style front-gable house on a sloping lot with a lower level beneath the main level, vertical wood siding, no windows on the street front, and a 2-story porch overlooking the woods at rear.

From the National Register nomination form of 2005, completed by M. Ruth Little Rustic Neo-Traditional 1- and 2-story house with board-and-batten siding, an engaged porch with stone piers, and a side carport on columns. Front-gable board-and-batten shed at rear. The following information comes from the City Directories and general web searching...

(January 2018, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: This one-story, L-shaped Contemporary style house has a low-sloped gabled roof covered with tar and gravel, large purlins in the gables, and stacked metal awning windows. A side-gabled section on the right (southeast) is three bays wide...

02.27.2012 (City of Durham) 08.27.2019 (G. Kueber)

07.26.15 (G. Kueber) I keep being struck by the sense that the new Aloft hotel kinda looks like a Federal Government building from the 1960s. Maybe they should lose the flags.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Row of four two-story condominiums perpendicular to street. Although these units were completed in 1984, their modern design features set-back materials, configurations, and multiple gabled roofline compatible with the older neighboring structures.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Elizabeth Cecil House. Altered Craftsman style house with hip roof, interior chimney, 5-over-1 Craftsman sash windows, and plain siding. The porch has been enclosed as a room, with a new entrance and windows. 1930 CD: Elizabeth Cecil occupant.

2012 Passive solar house built in 1978 by Richard and Lonna Harkrader / New Morning Construction.

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