827 Burch Ave.

35.997981, -78.916966

827
Burch Avenue
Durham
NC
Year built
1919
Architectural style
Craftsman
Construction type
Frame
National Register
Burch Avenue
Neighborhood
Burch Avenue
West End
Use
Residence
Building Type
Residential
Local ID
113935
State ID
DH2931
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This one-story, hip-roofed, Craftsman house is three-bays wide and triple pile. The house rests on a high brick foundation and has two interior, corbelled brick chimneys. The roof has wide overhangs and exposed eaves. There are projecting hip-roofed bays on the left and right sides and a hipped front dormer with multi-pane, lancet-light windows flanking a rectangular vent. The house retains original wood weatherboards and windows throughout the house are lancet-light-over-one windows. The house has an inset front porch on the left side supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers with an original wood railing. The front door is a beveled-glass pane over single-panel with matching sidelights and a transom across the entire assembly. The right front of the house, aligned with the porch, contains a room with grouped windows on the front and right sides and a separate entrance from the porch with a French door and matching sidelights. The first known resident in Raymond G. Suitt (clerk) in 1919; Suitt remained in the house through at least 1940.   Garage, c. 1920 – One-story, hip-roofed frame garage with wood weatherboards and a wide vehicle entrance with double board-and-batten doors on the façade.

 

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