Holt House

35.991434, -78.923261

1710
Chapel Hill Road
Durham
NC
Year built
~1900
Year(s) modified
1970s
Architectural style
Victorian
Construction type
Frame
National Register
Lakewood Park
Neighborhood
Lakewood-Tuscaloosa
Use
Residence
Building Type
Residential
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With one some of the most unique porch detailing in Durham, the Holt house seems to me to announce the entrance into the Lakewood neighborhood, following the old path of the streetcar down Chapel Hill Road.

The house was built at the turn of the century, around the time of the development of Lakewood Park, by Willie Edgar Holt, who had moved to Durham from Richmond. Holt operated a butcher shop at the city market downtown, which was initially located in the Academy of Music/Municipal Building before a new city market was constructed at later-Morgan and Foster Sts.

The house fell into some disrepair, but was renovated in the 1970s.




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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 5/6/2008 - 1:15pm

It again fell into disrepair until recently (it was for sale up until about a year ago), and was recently renovated for some organization.

Submitted by Woozle (not verified) on Wed, 5/7/2008 - 1:55pm

If I'm not mistaken, that's the house of which my mother rented the back part (possibly later expanding into the front... my memories are fuzzy) for her computer store, Microglyphics, in the early 1980s. It was one of the first computer stores in the area, possibly the first (when we bought our own computer just a couple of years earlier, we had to go someplace west of Hillsboro to pick it up).

Submitted by Steven Matherly (not verified) on Fri, 2/13/2009 - 2:53pm

The house belonged to my mother Kelly Matherly for at least twenty years. She sold it to a health care group that called it "The Crib". It appears empty now.

Steven Matherly
vfeiginmatherly@nc.rr.com

Submitted by sean stevens (not verified) on Wed, 5/9/2012 - 11:16pm

Now up for sale again. Not sure what happened to the Dream Crib, but i'm hoping no doorways were widened to hospital-bed width

Submitted by VF (not verified) on Wed, 4/3/2013 - 11:00am

Back on the market again - good opportunity if one has the patience to negotiate a short sale:

MLS 1882625

Submitted by Nicole (not verified) on Wed, 4/10/2013 - 1:33pm

Fingers crossed! :)

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