Minimal Traditional

2112 Duncan Street

December 2017, Photo by Heather Slane - hmwPreservation The National Register Historic District application for College Heights describes this as a "one-story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with vinyl siding and windows and rectangular louvered vents in the gables. A two-light-over-four-panel door...

408 E. Lawson St.

(06.28.2002, from volunteer survey by Preservation Durham) This house was built around 1950 for Palmer L. and Clara Perkins. At the time, Palmer Perkins is listed in the city directory as a janitor at Durham Bank & Trust (located in the Trust Building at 212 W. Main) while Clara Perkins worked at the Modern Beauty Shop in the heart of Hayti. Mrs...

2110 Fayetteville St. – Viola G. Thompson House

(December 2017, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: This one-story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a full-width, gabled rear wing. The house has aluminum siding, six-over-six wood-sash windows, an interior brick chimney, and an...

1906 Cecil St. – John A. & Etta Leathers House

(January 2018, Photo by Cheri Szcodronski, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: This one-story, clipped-side-gabled, Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and triple-pile. The house has aluminum siding, six-over-six wood-sash windows, flush eaves, and an interior brick chimney. A solid wood door...

713 W. Knox St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first listed owner of this house in the 1949 city directory was Leonard W. Cheatham, Jr. It seems...

711 W. Knox St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first listed owner of this house in the 1949 city directory appears to have been a building...

1202 Ruffin St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been Jack E. Sessoms from at least 1948-1955...

1204 Ruffin St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been Donald Hess. Listed in 1947 and 1948...

1304 Ruffin St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been Ralph F. Grissom. He and his wife...

1302 Ruffin St.

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupants of this house appears to have been Louis A. Lubow and wife Bernice. Lubow...