614 Shepherd - Whitaker House

35.99596, -78.913414

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Durham
NC
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09.04.11

Per the Durham Historic Inventory

Edgar J. Whitaker, a foreman at Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco Company, built the house at 614 Shepherd in the early 1910s. [Note: Blackwell's had been bought and eventually absorbed by American Tobacco in the 1890s, and American broken up by 1911, so he was either foreman at another Co. or the house was built before the early 1910s.] A subsequent owner of the house was Tom Goss, who was associated with the Durham Hosiery Mills.

Per the National Register:

Two-story frame house with irregular form and neoclassical details typical of the transitional late Queen Anne/early Colonial Revival style. Ionic columns support the wrap-around porch (an end bay enclosed.) Distinctly Victorian features include patterned tin shingles on roof, three-sided bays, and applied narrow strips of scallopping above windows. Edgar J. Whitaker, a foreman at Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco Company, built the house in the early 1910s.

 

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