Victorian

2033 Yearby, 1940s (Courtesy Duke Forest Collection) I can't really go through all of the mill houses of West Durham south of Erwin Road that were demolished by Duke back in the late 1960s, but some representative examples are useful to give a sense of the character of this one-time neighborhood. 2033 Yearby, 05.14.09. Find this spot on a Google...

Blacknall House, looking southwest from Erwin Road and Anderson St., 11.07.78 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Wright Refuge, looking northwest, 1920s. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Chamber of Commerce Collection)

Lincoln Hospital, looking west, 1912.

The house at 508 (previously 408) Fayetteville St. was likely built in the 1890s. Its origins are unclear, but my pure speculation is that it may have been built as a parsonage for White Rock Baptist. Addresses become very difficult to trace prior to ~1905, but by 1907, it was the home of the James E. Shepard family. Shepard was born in Raleigh in...

Boone House, late 1970s Demetrius Boone moved to the southwest corner of N. Mangum St. and West Geer St. around 1910 - the Historic Inventory opines that the original structure was remodeled by Boone around 1913 to its present form - with the unusual feature of a gambrel front gable projecting from a hipped roof.

830 North Mangum, looking northeast, late 1970s. The Conrad House, at 830 N. Mangum, has always felt like a bit of an oasis to me - while boxed in by fairly bleak surroundings to the north and south, it retains the early 20th century character that once predominated along this block of North Mangum St.

Ever seen the 1910 version of the house remuddled with vinyl siding and replacement windows? That's evidently what was done to the house at 1917 Chapel Hill Road at the turn of the 20th century - a mid-19th century structure made of hand-hewn logs that was transformed into a Victorian cottage. These pictures show the old structure being re-exposed...

With one some of the most unique porch detailing in Durham, the Holt house seems to me to announce the entrance into the Lakewood neighborhood, following the old path of the streetcar down Chapel Hill Road.

403 West Pettigrew Street, 1940s ---- The change in relation of the houses in the 400 block of West Pettigrew to the street level gives a significnant sense of how far the grade was dropped at West Chapel Hill St. and West Pettigrew when the Chapel Hill St. underpass was created in the 1920s. Looking west on West Chapel Hill St. from the east side...