Four Square

Modest frame Foursquare with typical full-facade porch on tapered box posts and brick plinths. Large exterior chinmey on east elevation has a single shoulder on one side.

From the Durham Herald-Sun, 02/04/12 DURHAM – Affectionately called Freedom House, the house at 1123 N. Roxboro St. owned by the late Floyd B. McKissick Sr. and his wife, the late Evelyn McKissick, was home to more than just the McKissick family in the 1950s and ’60s, but the Durham civil rights movement, too. Thanks to a Preservation Durham...

Isaac M. Garrard (1889-1976), and his wife, Lonie Sanford (1890-1982), built this residence in 1922. The Garrards had four children. Their oldest son, Joseph W., started the Garrard Sausage business in Durham County. Isaac Garrard sold the house to his son Robert in 1967. This frame dwelling represents a rural derivative of the American Foursquare...

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Andrew Anderson House. Foursquare house with a hip roof, front gable, and wide boxed eaves with paired curvilinear brackets. Windows are paired 9-over-1 sashes. It has plain siding and a replacement front door with transom and sidelights. The full 1-story porch features massive Craftsman posts with brackets and the original railing. Other exterior features include a shallow entrance gable and an end chimney.

08.28.11 D. T. Sasser House. Large ornate Foursquare with hip roof, interior chimneys, deep eaves with curvilinear brackets, and a hipped front dormer. The front cross- gable has a lunette. Other finish includes plain siding, replacement front door with original transom, 2-over-1 sash windows, and a 1-story wraparound porch with massive paneled...

08.28.11 Wm. B. Farr House. Small scale Foursquare house with a side gable roof, interior chimney, triple 8-over-1 sash windows, a glazed and paneled front door, plain siding, a full width shed porch with square fluted columns, and a rear addition. 1930 CD: Wm. B. Farr occupant.