506 Gattis St.

35.999047, -78.917705

506
Gattis Street
Durham
NC
Year built
1896-1900
Architectural style
Triple A
Construction type
Frame
Neighborhood
Burch Avenue
West End
Use
Residence
Building Type
Residential
Local ID
113885
State ID
DH3023
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  This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is three-bays wide and single pile with a gabled rear ell on the right side. Two shed-roofed additions sit to the left of the ell. The house has a hiproofed front porch with a standing-seam metal roof supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers. Two-thirds of the porch has been enclosed and a new entrance added to that enclosure; however, the original form is still evident. Original wood weatherboards remain and the house has boxed eaves and round vents in the gable ends. Windows are one-over-one replacements.   (From the Burch Avenue National Register nomination, 2010.)   The land was purchased by William Speed from Julian Carr in 1896; the house was likely built then or soon thereafter. W. Speed died in 1919, and his wife continued to live in the house after that point.

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Submitted by Mark Eckert (not verified) on Sat, 10/27/2012 - 9:26pm

I have a deed to my house at 506 showing it was purchased by William Speed from Julian Carr in 1896. I also have copies of the 1910 and 1920 census showing the residents. W. Speed died in 1919 but the family had lived here much longer than that.

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