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Looking southwest at 1217 N. Hyde Park Ave., 08.24.2021 (N. Levy). County property records date this bungalow to 1935, but it seems possible it was built a few years prior. The first residents appear here in the 1929 city directory, the same year that Marion and Alzada Daniels - an African American carpenter and his wife who lived next door at 1215...

12.06.2017 (Durham County Tax Administration) Built in the late 1920s after the subdivision of land owned by heirs of J. W. Smith, this bungalow was home to the family of William and Martha Renn for much of its first decade. In the 1950s and 60s, this was the residence of Daisy Wrenn. Apparently no relation to the previous residents with a similar...

November 2002, photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers. According to county property records, this pyramid cottage was built by 1930, but it seems likely to predate that assessment by a decade or more. Originally from a farming family north of town, James Urban Lowe had been drafted and served in Europe during the First World War. A...

December 2021 (Photo by Tom Miller) This unassuming cottage on the unpaved northern portion of Virginia Avenue was the longtime home of Dr. Clotilde Schlayer, and the epicenter of a fascinating group of emigres, many of whom fled Nazi Germany to create new lives in Durham. Though German by background, Clotilde Schlayer was actually born in...

June 2005 photograph by volunteers for the Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) This is an early 1920s bungalow built on land between Alston Avenue and the Durham & Southern Railroad - not far from the rural stop near Cornwallis known as Oyama (later renamed Few). While it appears to have been built after J. A. Clark...

February 2021 (N. Levy) - 910 Cleveland at left, 908 at right. County property records list the two similarly configured houses just southeast of the intersection of Cleveland and Dowd as having been constructed in 1925, but other evidence indicates they appeared earlier. Residents are listed at 908 as early as the 1903-1904 City Directory, with...

February 2021 (N. Levy) - 908 Cleveland at right, 910 at left. County property records list the two similarly configured houses just southeast of the intersection of Cleveland and Dowd as having been constructed in 1925, but other evidence indicates they appeared earlier. Residents are listed at 908 as early as the 1903-1904 City Directory, with...

Photo by Melva Rigel, August 2020 This one-story, side-gabled, Minimal Traditional-style house is four bays wide and double-pile with aluminum siding, eight-over-eight wood-sash windows, and an interior brick chimney. The left three bays project slightly under a front-gabled roof and feature a three-light-over-four-panel door flanked by six-over...

----- Original East End School, ~1910s (Courtesy Durham Public Schools) The East End Graded School, built in 1909, was the third graded school established for African-American children in Durham, after the Whitted School (at Ramsey and Proctor Streets in Hayti) and the West End Graded School. The locations of these schools reflected the locations...

December 2017, photograph by Heather Slane - hmwPreservation The following information was included in the 2018 National Register Historic District Application for College Heights. 2106 Concord Street – S. Arthur and Hattie Bass House – c. 1937 Contributing Building This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile...