Boone House

Living in OND, I cant tell you how relieved I was when renovations actually commenced on this house, the massive porch over the entrance to the home appeared frigtenengly fragile and looked like a disaster waiting to happen. but they did come in and reinforce that thing, but good, I got to watch it every morning driving by.

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Terrific renovation and restoration. Looks like it was falling down 30 years so all the more impressive!

Driving by every day for the last nine years or so I recall it being a daycare for a bit.

It did seem to be falling apart, then someone hoisted a too tall joist (okay, maybe not exactly like that, but I felt like a rhyme) in the column so that the right of the portico (or whatever it's called) poked up--a bad fix for sure.

The current reno, from street view anyway, seems much improved. Speaking of, Google Street View shows it in mid-reno.

http://snipurl.com/34y1c [maps_google_com]

My wife and I looked at the house when it was announced on the Durham Preservation Society website. Inside it had looked like it had been divided into several apartments and the fireplaces either bricked up or pilastered over (false wall).

We declined to purchase it because of the steady flow of traffic on Mangum and the amount we estimated for bringing it back to a single family dwelling.

By the way do you have more maps of Durham, especially Glendale?

I just stumbled across this site. As a Durham native, born in the early 60's, I'm finding some of the pictures and information fascinating. In fact, I seem to remember this house, in its darkest days, being a massage parlor for a little while.

I saw EdRock's posting - almost 3 1/2 years later.  I too, remember it in its funky-naughty time.  That said, as a pre-teen in the early 1970's, I have a slight recollection that there was something more to its facade...detailing, overhanging porch, something.  I just can't quite remember what, but I thought at that time something was missing that I recalled earlier.