West Markham Avenue

Markham Avenue Oak

There's a curious little median on West Markham Avenue - a one-block long, ovoid median. Durham being a place of few medians, at least beyond the freeway variety, this small space is rather odd. In the early 20th century, Markham Avenue and College Road did not connect, separated by a block between Buchanan and Watts. In a rather uncharacteristic...

1401 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

Asbury United Methodist

Asbury United Methodist, 03.10.68 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

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...

762-764 Ninth

Looking southeast, 1940s. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) 762-764 Ninth St., the bookend to the two-story structures at the Perry St. end of the Ninth St. commercial strip, appears to have been built in the late 1920s. It initially housed Whitmore’s Bakery at 762 and Mack’s Food Shop at 764. Upstairs tenants appear to...

801 Onslow Street – Franck House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Modest but handsome tum-of-the-century Neo-Colonial style house with large wraparound one-story porch supported by bulbous Tuscan columns on brick plinths. Although several additions have been made to the rear, it appears that the rear one-story wing...

1700 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Frame Foursquare distinguished by exterior end chimney of tapestry brick, sidelights at one side of main entrance, and almost full-facade porch with very large tapered box posts on brick plinths with granite sills.

1410 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Frame upstairs/downstairs duplex, identical to 902 Dacian Ave.

1404 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Non-descript two-story brick-veneered building with exterior staircases, built 1950s or 1960s.

1312 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) T-shaped brick-veneered house with two-story gable-front wing at top of the "T" and one-and-one-half-story wing with engaged arcaded porch and hip-roofed dormer at the "stem" parallel to the street. Small one-story porch with brick piers at corners...