Neoclassical Revival

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403-405 Watts, April 2004 (Photo by Shelley Dekker) 403 Watts, late 2007. (Photo by Gary Kueber) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A 1920s two-story hip-roofed brick duplex with a short ell on the north side. The two entries are sheltered by gabled porticos decorated with...

3810 Dover Road, ca. 1958, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story side-gabled Neoclassical house with brick exterior, 6/6 and 4/4 double-hung sash, hip-roofed and front-gabled flanking wings, interior brick chimneys, and pedimented front porch with Ionic columns. City records date this house to 1958 and city directories show William and Ophelia Edwards were the first residents. William W. Edwards was an owner of the Clements and Edwards Insurance Agency. Outbuilding 3810 Dover Road, ca. 1960, Noncontributing Building One-story, hip-roofed outbuilding on brick foundation with mitered weatherboard siding, 1/1 windows, single-leaf glazed door, and shed-roofed addition at back.

William and Louise Thomas, who owned and operated the Thomas Bookstore across from the Washington Duke Hotel downtown, built the house in the late 1940s. Durham auto repair magnate Donny Sorrell and his wife Fannie purchased it in 1960, and lived here until the mid-1990s.

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Set among mature hardwood trees, this combination L-plan and pyramidal cottage, built around 1905, is one of the best-preserved examples of its type in Durham County. The one-and- a-half-story frame house has a high hip roof with front and side gable-roofed wings, a front porch with original turned posts, two-over-two sash windows with peaked...

1981 Modern hipped roof two story brick structure dominated by two story portico with supporting Corinthian columns. 12.17.11

08.28.11 Mitchell-Baker House. Side-gabled Classical Revival cottage with corbeled eaves, vented dormers, 9-over-1 paired windows, a paneled front door with transom and sidelights, and a classical arched entrance porch with fluted columns. The side screened porch has fluted columns. D. C. Mitchell Jr., bookkeeper at Durham Lumber Co., had this...

08.28.11 Neal-Ford House. Substantial 2 1/2- story Neoclassical style house with a pyramidal roof, 2 interior chimneys, boxed and molded eaves, and plain siding. Openings include a glazed and paneled front door with transom and sidelights, large 1-over-1 sash windows, and a front gabled dormer with a Palladian window. Some upper sash have Queen...