503 North Queen Street

35.996365, -78.894896

503
North Queen Street
Durham
NC
Year built
1938
Architectural style
Craftsman
Construction type
Frame
National Register
Cleveland-Holloway
Neighborhood
Cleveland-Holloway
Use
Residence
Building Type
Residential
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503 North Queen Street, 1980

This small, Craftsman-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a gabled addition across the width of the rear. The house has a brick foundation, German-profile wood siding, an asphalt-shingled, side-gabled roof, and an exterior brick chimney rising along the left (south) elevation. Simple in form and detail, the house has a gabled front porch supported by Craftsman style battered posts on brick piers with concrete caps, exposed eaves, and decorative gable vents. Windows are three-over-one wood windows and the front door is a Craftsman-style three-light over two-panel door.

A. Waddell Umstead was this first resident of the house; he is listed in 1938 as a "ticket marker" at the Star Brick Warehouse

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1999

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(Courtesy Natalie Spring / Jessie Gladin-Kramer)

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Submitted by Natalie (not verified) on Wed, 4/4/2012 - 10:29am

Waddell and Mary Umstead lived here in 1940. White family aged 37 and 39.  Their nephew James Scarborough (19 years old) also lived with them. Mary and James were born in South Carolina, while Waddell was born in North Carolina. They are listed as having lived in the same place in 1930. Waddell's occupation is listed as tobacconist.

The house was valued at 3,500.

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