Tudor Revival

The Brady and Muriel Jordan House

The Brady and Muriel Jordan House

Photograph by Pam Lappegard circa 2025 (From the Preservation Durham 2025 Home Tour Program) Built in 1932 for professor of languages Brady Jordan and his wife, Muriel, the Jordan’s home was among the first in “Duke Forest,” a subdivision created for the faculty of the new Duke University. In 1924, James Buchanan Duke, perhaps with a growing sense...

Massey-Hall House

1-1/2 Storey English Tudor Revival residence (circa 1928) at northeast corner of North Gregson and Demerius Streets

Walter M. & Katherine T. Nielsen House

139 Pinecrest Rd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): Following the expansion of Duke...

Walter A. Biggs House

2116 W. Club Blvd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): The Biggs House near Oval Park in Watts...

James A. and Irene B. Smith House

1417 Acadia Street, 2011 (Courtesy Alex Maness) The J. A. Smith House, 1931 1417 Acadia Street Among the last houses built in Duke Park before the crushing weight of the Great Depression halted nearly all construction, the J. A. Smith House is nevertheless an outstanding example of the Tudor or gothic revival style so popular in the Duke Park...

1435 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy) 08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

1413 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

T.E. Cheek House / Moose Lodge

The TE Cheek house was built in ~1923 on the site of the Geer Farmhouse after that house was moved to the west end of the block between Hamlin (now Rosetta) and North Alston Ave. I've spent hours trying to track down the deed records on this house prior to 1968, but when dealing with "Geer"s and "Cheek"s, it's a messy business. The above plat dates from 1937. It appears that Thomas Edgar Cheek Sr. died in 1942, and Thomas Edgar Cheek Jr. died in 1947.

Walter M. Browning, Jr. House

One ½-story brick Tudor Cottage with an L-plan, interior end chimney, and a steep gable terra-cotta tile roof. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Walter M. Browning Jr., a solicitor at Continental Life Insurance Co., was the occupant in 1930.

Mattie M. And Wallace W. Umphlette House

One ½-story side-gabled Tudor Cottage with clipped gables, a terra-cotta tile roof, stuccoed walls, and 9-over-1 sash windows. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Wallace W. Umplette, a traveling salesman, was the occupant in 1930.