Northern Durham

Notable for a two-tiered full-facade porch with an unusual sawn work balustrade on the upper level, the Dr. Edwin Holt House is a side-gable frame I-house with modest Greek Revival detailing. While the six-over-six windows with plain surrounds and boxed cornice with gable-end returns are typical of many Durham County residences of the mid- to late...

Isaac M. Garrard (1889-1976), and his wife, Lonie Sanford (1890-1982), built this residence in 1922. The Garrards had four children. Their oldest son, Joseph W., started the Garrard Sausage business in Durham County. Isaac Garrard sold the house to his son Robert in 1967. This frame dwelling represents a rural derivative of the American Foursquare...

A. G. Cox, superintendent of the cotton mill at Orange Factory purchased a portion of the Lipscombe Plantation in the 1880s and constructed a frame tri-gable I-house with Gothic Revival detailing. In 1887, shortly after the farmhouse was completed, Issac Emerson, inventor of Bromo Seltzer, purchased it and 162 acres of land for his sister, Anna...

A. G. Cox, superintendent of the cotton mill at Orange Factory purchased a portion of the Lipscombe Plantation in the 1880s and constructed a frame tri-gable I-house with Gothic Revival detailing. A low roof with bargeboard decoration on the eaves, a wide and prominent center gable with an oversized window, a single end chimney, and a unique wrap...

An intriguing inscription on the floor of a twentieth-century well house documents the history of a much-renovated frame I-house that was the antebellum home of William J. Duke, older brother of tobacco magnate, Washington Duke: Built in 1825 W. J. Duke Rebuilt in 1896 J. E. Lyon Rebuilt in 1936 Rosa A. Lyon Belvin The dwelling’s basic form is that...

The Nichols-Belvin-Stokes House, a single-pen log farmhouse located on a knoll not far from Ellerbe Creek, dates to the early years of the nineteenth century. Characteristic of an early homestead are the large fieldstone and brick exterior end chimney, the steeply pitched gable roof, and the rear batten door. The interior contains a single room...

The early-nineteenth-century, three-bay, frame dwelling built over a high fieldstone foundation is one of a very few hall-parlor houses that have survived in Durham County. The entry door of six raised panels, held in place by H and HL hinges, opens into an ample hall with wide- board flooring, horizontal wainscoting, and plaster, all refinements...

02.07.09 Owned by Samuel and Marjorie Stanley. 07.16.11

A one-pen log house built during the first half of the nineteenth century was enlarged in the early twentieth century by a frame room of the same approximate size, each having a separate entrance and exterior end chimney. A massive rubble-stone chimney serves the nineteenth- century pen, and a smaller fieldstone and brick chimney, inscribed, “built...

The Glenn family, for whom a nearby road is named, established a farm complex and constructed this tri-gabled frame I-house in the early twentieth century. The house has original two-over-two sash windows, rear end chimneys, and a rear shed, but during the 1920s a Craftsman-style porch was added, and later the weatherboard siding was covered with...