Colonial Revival

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Victor Bryant Jr. House, 1981. Between 1925 and 1930, attorney Victor Bryant, Jr., constructed this Colonial Revival house on Vickers Avenue, designed by Northrup and O'Brien. Northrup and O'Brien plans, drawn in 1924. More detail at NCSU library. His father, Victor Bryant, a prominent lawyer in Durham and one-time city attorney, had a large house...

Duke cardiologist, Dr. Edward Orgain and his family loved this fine Colonial Revivalist house and called it home for more than 50 years. The Orgains did not build it, however, nor did they seek it out. It fell into their hands through the fortunes of war. In 1937 Duke economist Herbert von Beckerath and his wife, Guelda, bought two Devon Road lots...

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) When Oren William Belvin (1868-1937) married Caroline (Carrie) Farthing in 1890, he was a young grocer working for her family's Durham wholesale grocery and dry goods company, Farthing and Duke. By 1892, the company was called Farthing and Belvin and had moved from Main Street to...

3918 Dover Road, ca. 1930, Contributing Building Two-story hip-roofed Colonial Revival with shingle siding, 6/6 double-hung wood sash, intersecting front-gabled wing at one end of facade, projecting gabled entry with fluted pilasters and open pediment, and interior brick chimney. William and Margaret Lickle purchased the parcel from Hope Valley, Inc., in 1929; Lickle was the sales director for Mebane and Sharpe who lived at the Washington Duke Hotel before moving to Hope Valley. The Lickles sold the house to William and Olga Perlzweig in 1931. Dr. William Perlzweig was among the Johns Hopkins medical school faculty that moved to Durham to establish the hospital and medical school at Duke University.

3635 Angier Avenue, 1951 "J.P. Jones & Son, general store at 3635 Angier Avenue, carries a large line of food, staples, appliances, farm equipment, feed, seed, and fertilizers, serving the trade in Durham, Orange, Person, Granville, Wake, and Chatham Counties. This business was founded in Wake (now Durham) County in 1893 by MC and RM Jones, but was...

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The symmetrical three-bay facade features a gable entry porch on plain box posts. Although it was built in the 1950s, it is compatible with the neighboring older buildings. Now covered with vinyl siding.

2116 W. Club Blvd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): The Biggs House near Oval Park in Watts...

This two-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and triple-pile with a full-width, shed-roofed dormer across the façade. The earliest known occupant is Martha Donnell (school teacher) in 1935.