404 Dunstan Ave. – Verbal-Coltrane House

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and double-pile. The house has a brick foundation, aluminum siding, and a corbelled brick chimney at the west rear. It retains original three-over-one, double-hung Craftsman-style wood sash windows throughout, including in the gabled front dormer. The gabled front porch is supported by decorative metal posts and has been enclosed with glass and a new entrance door. The one-story, side-gabled porch on the east elevation was enclosed and enlarged to two stories; a two-story, shed-roofed ell extends across the east rear of the house with a one-story, shed-roofed ell at the west rear. A stuccoed retaining wall extends across the front of the property, interrupted by a brick stair. County tax records date the building to 1939; the earliest known occupant is Sidney Verbal (Wonderland Barber Shop) in 1940. By 1945, Frank Coltrane was the occupant. Residents changed frequently and neighbor Ralph Judd remembers the house being a rooming house for NCCU students, indicating that it may have been a rental property.