Four Square

108 North Buchanan Boulevard

Frame Foursquare sheathed in shake shingles built between 1915 and 1919. An entrance porch on box posts is topped by a shingled balustrade. Another one-bay, hip-roofed porch on box posts is attached to the south side. Earliest owner was W. Marvin Newton, president of W.M. Newton & Co., clothiers on W. Main St. In the 1920s.

1218 Fayetteville St. - F.K. Watkins House

FK Watkins house, late 1970s. Frederick K. Watkins constructed the house at 1208 Fayetteville St. around 1913. Watkins either dubbed himself, or found himself dubbed (P.I.) 'The Movie King' for his ownership of, first, the Electric Theater, which became the Rex Theater and moved to 522 East Pettigrew St., and then the Wonderland Theater - it...

607 Vickers Ave - Petty House

01.17.69 (Herald-Sun) The 600 block of Vickers began as a residential block with the eastern end of the West End commercial district at its intersection with West Chapel Hill St. The larger houses along the ridgeline of West Chapel Hill continued to some extent within this first block away from the ridge and trolley line, but the houses were...

209 Hood St. / Parrish Place

Hood Street, originally called Parrish Place, was a street of large houses at the eastern edge of the East Downtown neighborhood anchored by mansions on East Main and Dillard Streets. Around 1900, the street was put through an area that had held JR Reams' tobacco prizery house. 1891 - the prizery house is labelled #28. Reams Ave. later became South...