Queen Anne Victorian

Large 2-story Queen Atme-style house of gable-and-wing form, with a 2-story cutaway bay window in the front wing, a secondary front gable, German siding, and 1-over-1 sash windows. Mrs. Lydia Griffin bought this house about 1920 when she moved to Durham from Chatham County. Mrs. Griffin sold the house to Arthur and Frances Barbee about 1930.

Alton S. Hobgood, attorney; office 128 West Main lived here in 1919.

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...

Per the Durham County Library: House of Leonidas & Lucy Bacon James. Built 1907-8. House was at 1802 Chapel Hill Rd. Leonidas James was president of James Lumber Co. (1902). His office was in the Wright Building on W. Main St. The lumber mill was in the Redwood Community.

William Griswold on the front porch of 115 N. Dillard with 411 Liberty in the background (Courtesy Susan Herst) Among the more royally messed up - and that's not the term I'd really like to use - streets in Durham is Liberty St. Once one of the nicer streets in Durham, Liberty is now essentially a one-way, three-lane off-ramp for the downtown Loop...

The house at the southwest corner of South Dillard and East Main was the home of Dr. A. G. Carr. Carr House, looking southwest from the corner of Dillard and East Main, February 28, 1898. (Photo found in a trunk in the attic of the Lipscomb House)

The early houses along McMannen St. were occupied by names that would become familiar in Durham: Cheek, Wilkerson, Mangum, Angier among them. As mentioned yesterday, many of these houses were supplanted by larger, more ornate structures in the 1890s-1900s.

The early houses along McMannen St. were occupied by names that would become familiar in Durham: Cheek, Wilkerson, Mangum, Angier among them. As mentioned yesterday, many of these houses were supplanted by larger, more ornate structures in the 1890s-1900s.

Much like the western side of the 400-500 block of McMannen St., the eastern side developed with a first generation of ~1870s-1880s houses (most likely) of which many were supplanted by larger dwellings during the 1890s-1910s. Some of the earlier dwellings persisted on the east side into the 1960s 515 S. Mangum All of these houses were torn down by the city using federal urban renewal funds in the late 1960s.