Trinity Park

John Spencer Bassett House

1902 Trinity College map. (Courtesy Duke Archives / Digitized by Digital Durham) One of the four (out of an original five) surviving houses from Trinity College's 'Faculty Row', the house currently located at 1017 West Trinity Avenue is most well known as the house of John Spencer Bassett, a Trinity College History professor. Bassett, in turn, is...

1115 Watts St.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Vernacular 1-story house of gable-and-wing form, with a side-gable roof, a front cross-gable, a wraparound porch, and 2/2 sash windows. Alterations include replacement porch posts and railing and vinyl siding and trim. It...

Massey-Hall House

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

707 Watts St.

(DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Boxy two-story frame house built circa 1910. Hipped roof pierced by interior chimneys. Original full-facade porch with Tuscan columns wraps to the south side; trabeated entry surround.

Bassett-Brown House

1924 - Durham, City of Industry Book. John Spencer Bassett, whose tenure at Trinity College and importance in the growth of academic freedom via the 'Bassett Affair' I've previously profiled lived in one of the Faculty Row houses until 1905, when he started construction on the house at 410 N. Buchanan Blvd. Per the Duke Archives, Bassett left for...

205 Albemarle Street

01.17.12 From the TP NR nomination: W.T. Purvis, who lived at 1003 Lamond Ave., had this Foursquare constructed in the 1920s for rental property. Modest Colonial Revival detailing on the two-story frame structure is restricted to the Palladian windcm arrangement in the gabled attic dormer. 08.23.13 (G. Kueber) This house has been bizarrely...

Plyer-Raba House

(11.16.2017 - Durham County Tax Administration photo) In italics below from the 2004 filing for the Trinity Park National Register Historic District boundary increase that included this property: Rev. Marion T. Plyler House. Colonial Revival-style 2-story brick house with side-gabled roof and flanking flat-roofed wings with wooden roof balustrades...

1106 Englewood Ave.

(Advertisement from the Durham Sun, April 15, 1940, referenced in lecture by Jennifer Martin of MdM Historical Consultants during events for April 2019 Preservation Durham home tour.) Part of the development of the northern phase of Trinity Park laid out from the 1930s, this home was designed by the architect George Hackney - who worked on many...

Edward J. Evans House

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): Formerly part of the estate of Miss Demerius Dollar, the land in the northern part of Trinity Park sits was divided into lots for sale in 1925. Development stalled with the onset of the Depression...

J.D. & Drusilla Gibson House

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): During the years of the Great Depression, new home construction stopped. The only thing happening to capture national attention and shape popular architectural taste was the work at Colonial Williamsburg...