People & Places

McCollum-Eure House

08.28.11 W. T. Eure House. W. T. Eure purchased the lot in 1919 and built the house soon afterwards. His daughters worked at Watts Hospital, and nurses boarded here. Two-story Queen Anne/Colonial Revival style house with a hip roof, plain siding, and original 12-over-1 sash windows. The original glazed and paneled door has sidelights and a transom...

Pleas M. Sawyer House #5

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Another in the row of five Period Houses built by a speculator in the early 1930s. Here the roof is gambrel-front with wall dormers along the sides. The hip-roofed porch has deep eaves with sawn rafter ends, large fluted box posts, and match stick...

Hill C. Linthicum House

08.28.11 J. R. Bagwell House. Foursquare with a hip roof with hip dormers, Craftsman sash windows on the 1st story, 12-over-1 sash windows on the 2nd story, wood shake siding, a glazed and paneled front door, and a hip roof porch with paneled posts and plain railing. 1925 CD: J. R. Bagwell occupant. Bagwell ran an eponymous plumbing-heating...

Clements-Livengood House

The residents of this home applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application. (Application prepared by Sara Lachenman, 4/1 Design.) W. Wallace Clements first owned 1022 Homer. He was born in Durham to William P Clements, a vice-president of Merchants and Mechanics Bank...

Yearby-Ferguson House

Two blocks off of Holloway is 501 Oakwood, emblematic of the kind of problem the Cleveland-Holloway neighborhood is trying to deal with - and in my mind, a better target for the city's largess than funding businesses to do new construction. 501 Oakwood was among the earliest built in the part of the Cleveland-Holloway neighborhood north of Holloway...

Walter A. Biggs House

2116 W. Club Blvd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): The Biggs House near Oval Park in Watts...

Whitmore-Middleton House

Andrew Anderson House. Foursquare house with a hip roof, front gable, and wide boxed eaves with paired curvilinear brackets. Windows are paired 9-over-1 sashes. It has plain siding and a replacement front door with transom and sidelights. The full 1-story porch features massive Craftsman posts with brackets and the original railing. Other exterior features include a shallow entrance gable and an end chimney.

John L. and Glendora Council House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Mid-1930s one-story frame Type A bungalow with gable-front engaged porch exhibits an exterior-end chimney with stone inserts at the shoulders, nine-over-one windows, full brick porch piers, and arches at the porch openings.

J. Gerald & Macie Williams Pleasants House

This home has applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information derives from the plaque application. This is home is a 1.5 -story side-gable Colonial Revival-style house of clinker brick, with a recessed door with a wide pedimented surround, 8-over-8 and 6-over-6 sash windows, and 3 gabled dormers...

Watts Hospital-Sweaney House

Sweaney House from Buchanan Blvd., 05.07.66 (Courtesy Herald-Sun) For the first ~40 years of its existence, Durham made do without a hospital. This was not unusual, particularly for a town of Durham's size. Medical care, when available, was provided in the home by visiting physicians. Dr. Albert G. Carr, brother of Julian Carr became an early...