Brick and Frame

Duke cardiologist, Dr. Edward Orgain and his family loved this fine Colonial Revivalist house and called it home for more than 50 years. The Orgains did not build it, however, nor did they seek it out. It fell into their hands through the fortunes of war. In 1937 Duke economist Herbert von Beckerath and his wife, Guelda, bought two Devon Road lots...

215 Parrish Place in 1939 (Courtesy of private family collection). Two brick apartment houses were added to a row of earlier homes along Parrish Place - on the south side of the street near its intersection with Ramseur - in the mid-1920s. According to the recollections of a resident who lived at 215 Parrish Place around 1940, "The house was...

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcondronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 Significantly altered with the construction of a second floor, this house was likely constructed as a one-story Ranch house. The side-gabled house is currently four bays wide and double-pile with a second floor over the right (southeast) half of the house...

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcondronski, National Historic Submission, January 2018 Typical of Ranch houses in the district, this one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting hip-roofed wing on the left (northwest) end of the façade. The house has a brick veneer, exterior brick chimney on the left elevation...

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcondronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 This one-story, side-gabled, Ranch house is four bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, six-over-six wood-sash windows, a wide cornice with dentil molding, and triangular louvered vents in the gables. A deeply inset entrance bay near the left (east)...

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcodronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 Currently under renovation, this one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house is five-bays wide and double-pile with the rightmost bay only half the depth of the house under a lower hipped roof. The house has a light, Roman brick veneer, two interior red brick chimneys...

(December 2017, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description, where it is listed as a "non-contributing property" because of modifications made in the 1970s: This one-story, hip-roofed house was significantly altered in the 1970s with the construction of a flat-roofed brick wing that extends...

Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, January 2018 This one-story, hip-roofed Ranch is four bays wide with a brick veneer with soldier-course brick watertable and replacement vinyl slider windows that wrap around the corners of the building, likely replacing original metal-framed windows. Near the center of the...

(January 2018, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: This one-story, L-shaped Contemporary style house has a low-sloped gabled roof covered with tar and gravel, large purlins in the gables, and stacked metal awning windows. A side-gabled section on the right (southeast) is three bays wide...

Photo from spring 2020 TMLS listing Located on a slight rise on the south side of Pekoe Avenue, this one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house is seven bays wide with a projecting, hip-roofed wing on the right (northwest) end of the façade and a shallow, projecting hip-roofed bay on the left (southeast) end of the façade. The house has a brick veneer...