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Per Triangle Modernist Houses: Colonel Rambeau House Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker and builder, who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951. Added a garage. Sold to the Mitchells. Sold in 1957 to Charles Albert (Al) Hilliard who added the back room and bath and then joined it to the garage...

This two-story, hip-roofed Foursquare house is two bays wide and double-pile with a one-story, gabled rear ell on the northwest corner. County tax records date the building to 1926; the earliest known occupant is Felicia D. Miller (clerk, Bankers Fire Insurance Company) in 1930.

Fayette Place was a large public housing project developed by the Durham Housing Authority in 1967; it supplanted a large portion of residential Hayti and served as 'replacement housing' for many who were forced out of historic housing by urban renewal. With Durham Freeway Construction in the background - 1967 (Durham County LIbrary) 1959 Aerial...

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) When Oren William Belvin (1868-1937) married Caroline (Carrie) Farthing in 1890, he was a young grocer working for her family's Durham wholesale grocery and dry goods company, Farthing and Duke. By 1892, the company was called Farthing and Belvin and had moved from Main Street to...

November 2002, photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers. According to county property records, this pyramid cottage was built by 1930, but it seems likely to predate that assessment by a decade or more. Originally from a farming family north of town, James Urban Lowe had been drafted and served in Europe during the First World War. A...

1981 Visible in the background is Mt. Gilead Baptist Church, which acquired this house in 1993.

According to the 1907-1908 City Directory, this was the address of two men - Harry and Harry J. Whitmore, perhaps a father and son. Harry was listed as a clerk at an unspecified business, while Harry J. Whitmore was a baker at the shop of James L. Whitmore on East Main Street. Apparently also relatives, these Whitmores lived nearby at 604 Mangum...

1999 Residents listed in the 1907-1908 city directory for this address were Julius A Barbee - a rural postal carrier - and Miss Iola Barbee. It is possible both were relatives of F. M. Barbee, who owned the land as part of a larger parcel including the house he occupied facing Mangum (later moved or demolished to make way for the service station...

August 2007, from Google Streetview. 07.24.08

This two-story, hip-roofed Foursquare house is two bays wide and double-pile with two one-story, gabled rear ells. The earliest known occupant is Edward D. Green (grocer)