Residence

1012 Gurley St.

2003 Otis Street

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcondronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 This one-story, hip-roofed bungalow is three bays wide with a one-bay-wide, gabled wing on the right (southwest) elevation, flush with the façade. The house has a stuccoed exterior, deep eaves with exposed rafter tails, and vinyl windows throughout made up...

2002 Otis Street

Photographed January 2018, by Cheri Szcodronski ( hmwPreservation) for the National Register application. From the submission for the College Heights National Register Historic District: This one-and-a-half-story, front-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide with a brick veneer and vinyl windows. There is a single window in the front gable and a...

106 South Alston Avenue

127 Masondale Avenue

Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Historic Register Submission, January 2018 This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and triple-pile with a projecting, front-gabled entrance bay centered on the façade. The house has a brick veneer, flush eaves, and replacement slider and double-hung vinyl windows...

1704 West Markham

Several of you wrote me to alert me to the fact that Jeff Monsein, whose name you may recognize from ads for his "Aluminum Company of North Carolina," intends to tear down a contributing property in the Trinity Heights National and Local Historic district - a house that he has owned for some time at 1704 Markham Avenue. Per the agenda of the...

The Jones-Tate House

Jones-Tate House (former 1704 Markham)

Many thanks to John Martin, owner of the house, who collected and wrote much of the history I've incorporated into the text below

408 South Driver Street

408 South Driver, 1980 (Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Lindsay Seagroves House and Store. One-story side-gable house with a front gable, weatherboard, 9-over-1 paired sash windows, and a Craftsman porch with a replacement railing. A frame store addition, No. 406...

607 Dowd St.

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as lot 14 of the Geerwood Park Subdivision, PB5A/P74. Unusual combination of features, including short Tuscan columns with a solid porch rail, corbeling throughout the eaves, standing seam pitched roof across the front gable. This was the long-time home of Thomas J. and Bettie Thompson. Thomas (T. J.) purchased...

605 Dowd St.

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as Lot 13 of the Geerwood Park subdivision (PB5A/P74), this property was purchased from the original developer by Adolphus and Dillie Jones in December 1915. Though the ostensible purchase price referenced on deeds is notoriously unreliable, the amount given in this case - $2,900 - makes it plausible that the...