Pinecrest Road

131 Pinecrest Rd. Architect: Robert Redding Markley Original owner: Dr. Lucius Aurelius Bigelow Built: 1935

139 Pinecrest Rd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): Following the expansion of Duke...

From Triangle Modernist Houses: The Douglas M. and Grace Knight House, aka the Duke President's House, 2402 Academy, Durham. Also listed as 1508 Pinecrest Road, Durham. Landscape design by Dick Bell. Commissioned 1963. Former NC Governor Terry Sanford, then at Duke as President, wanted a nice place to entertain donors. Douglas Knight was the first...

Designed by the original owner. Built by a man named Wallace, according to owner Walter Obrist. Sold many times. Addition in 1966. For sale in 2011.

Designed by William Potter.

07.03.11 I can't say I'm particularly intrigued by 147 Pinecrest as architecture, but it is distinguished as the resting place for the gates to Somerset Villa, Julian Carr's east-of-downtown incredible mansion. I'm not sure if they just ended up here through some random salvage, or some more personal connection Of course, I'm a little bit harsher...

Gainey House - In NW corner of intersection of Pinecrest and Chapel Hill Roads, June 1940 The geography of southwest Durham in the area of Duke Forest and the southwest portion of Duke's west campus has changed considerably since the early, despite its relatively 'undisturbed' appearance due to large scale ownership by Duke. Although Duke Forest...