Watts Street

1983 photo of 1305 Watts Street

1305 Watts Street

__________________________________________ from A Home in the City: The Trinity Park Fall Home Tour, October 16, 1983: 1305 Watts Street In 1927 the Few Family built this two-story white frame house as a rental unit. Early on the house was subdivided into two apartments, upstairs and down, and for years was rented to families and students. The...

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...

1108 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The symmetrical three-bay facade features a gable entry porch on plain box posts. Although it was built in the 1950s, it is compatible with the neighboring older buildings. Now covered with vinyl siding.

1110 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A 1950s two-story, two-room-deep frame house sheathed in weatherboards molded to look like shingles. A hipped roof is set off by scallop detailing at the cornice. Shuttered eight-over-eight windows and an entry topped by a swan's neck pediment with...

410 Watts Street / Trinity Park

410 Watts St. (Courtesy Adrienne Baroff) The house at 410 Watts St. was built in 1906 for James B. Warren, who is listed variably as a "manager" at 107 1/2 East Main St. later as vice president of Merchants Bank with an office at the same address. There are various JB Warrens in the city directories prior to that date who are listed only as living...

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.

1004 Watts Street - Beth El Synagogue

In the publication titled, Percival Goodman: Architect - Planner - Teacher - Painter, it lists the Beth-el Durham, NC Congregation in his lists of works in the year 1955 (page 188.) Here. Wikipedia says, Percival Goodman (January 13, 1904 – October 11, 1989) was an American urban theorist and architect who designed more than 50 synagogues between...

John J. and Nora Thaxton House

10.27.16 (From the TP NR nomination:) Durham County Deputy Sheriff and County Tax Collector J .J. Thaxton is the earliest known occupant of this two-story Neo- Colonial frame house built early in this century. It is one of the very few in Trinity Park that retains its original abundance of stained glass, appearing in six windows on the main facade...

209 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the late 1950s, this boxy two-story brick house is topped by a low hipped roof and lighted by eight-over-eight shuttered windows. An entrance porch with balcony is ornamented by decorative metal posts and railings. The entrance is flanked by...

210 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A recent two-story brick apartment building with a small side porch and exterior staircase.