People & Places

William Albert Wilkerson House

The earliest known resident of the house is Albert Wilkerson in 1900. Wilkerson was a contractor by trade and is believed to have constructed the house himself.

Lea-Gwin House

W.C. Lea House. Craftsman style house with a side gable roof, interior and end chimneys and plain siding. It features 4-over-1 paired sash windows and an original Craftsman door with a transom and sidelights and a bracketed hood. A side porch is enclosed and there is a large 1 1/2-story, front gabled rear addition ca 1995. 1930 CD: W. Clark Lea...

Annie E. Watkins House

Col. Sidney C. and Cora Wright Chambers House

Eakes-Atwater House

(Below in italics is from the 2003 Lakewood Park National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Eakes House. One-story tri-gable house with 2/2 sash windows and a hipped porch. Vinyl covers the walls and boxed eaves, and the turned porch posts are probably replacements. Geneva Eakes, widow of John W. Eakes, was the occupant...

Bryan-Wells House

1981 (Below in italics is from the 1984 North Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Large two story structure with hipped dormer and pedimented porch with classical details; weatherboard siding. Local grocery store operated here in 1903 by J.B. Kelly, and in 1911 by William S. Colclough, who moved from his...

Mary E. Newton House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story brick-veneered Tudoresque cottage. Multiple gabled roofline includes three decorative gables with applied half-timbering on main facade. Brick arches with stuccoed keystones enframe recessed entrance porch and larger recessed comer porch...

Lonnie D. and Mabel Vinson Hamlin House

401 East Trinity, ~1980. (State Historic Preservation Office) In 1912, Lonnie Hamlin and his wife Mabel are listed at 308 N. Elizabeth Street. They appear to have lived at this address only briefly; in October 1913, they purchased property (two separate lots) on the corner of "an unnamed street" (which would become "Hamlin Street") and Trinity...

Brock-Nabors-Crockett House

08.28.11 The current occupants of this home have applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application, prepared by Tom Miller in May 2017. The House The house at 2115 West Club Boulevard was built in 1921 for the Thomas Hubbard Brock family. The building contractors for...

Massey-Hall House

1-1/2 Storey English Tudor Revival residence (circa 1928) at northeast corner of North Gregson and Demerius Streets