Victorian

The original path of Elizabeth St. still persists south of East Main, roughly equidistant between Dillard and Fayetteville St., which is now where N. Elizabeth deposits its southbound traffic. The old route was a smaller, winding street that traveled north of E. Main through the current Liberty St. Apartments housing project, connecting with the original Elizabeth St. somewhere between Liberty and Holloway.

In spite of numerous alterations and additions to this two story Queen Anne style house with German siding dating from the early 1880s, much of its original character remains evident in such features as the polygonal bays and bracketed gable hoods with carved sunburst motifs. Henry Seeman, founder of Seeman Printery in 1885, purchased the house in the early 1880s upon his arrival in Durham. Seeman's print shop specialized in the printing of supplies incident to the sale of tobacco products.

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) Tobacco warehouseman Maynard Mangum had this imposing two story clapboarded house constructed in 1914 by local contractor Lonnie Glosson. A similarity in the overall form, proportions and low hipped roof with deep bracketed eaves between this house and the Umstead-Rollins House next...

1982 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Attorney J.A. Giles had this two story frame house built early in the 20th century. A subsequent owner, for whom the house is popularly named; was Benjamin c. Woodall, who lived...

In early 1912, TD Scruggs purchased a parcel of land from Mary W. Geer, an heir to the Geer farm, and built the present house upon it; he later enlarged the property with two additional parcels. He and his wife Lucy lived here until 1917. The house became home to Mary Fowler, and later, her son Atlas Jr.