Colonial Revival

White-Flowers House

Hugh Edward White, an office manager at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, and his wife Anne Parker purchased the lots at 1506 Hermitage and constructed the grand, Colonial Revival-style house about 1924.

128 Masondale Avenue

(January 2018, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) One of only a few two-story buildings in the district, this Colonial Revival-style house is the most stately house on Masondale Avenue. The house is five bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, flush eaves, and a wide, flat fascia board. The house has replacement vinyl windows...

Jane B. And Dr. Calvin S. Hicks House

2 ½-story side-gabled brick Colonial Revival-style house with end chimney, 6-over-6 sash windows, and a recessed door with sidelights and a pilastered surround. Dr. Calvin S. Hicks, physician at 123 W. Main St., was the owner-occupant in 1940.

Elinor D. And Demetrius L. Boone, Jr. House

Two-story side-gable brick Colonial Revival-style house with front gable wing with bay window with a multi-pane fixed window and concave roof. Demetrius L. Boone Jr. was owner-occupant in 1956.

Jessica Kirkland House

1 ½-story side-gable Cape Cod-style house with paired 6-over-6 sash windows, 2 gabled dormers, and flanking wings. Mrs. Jessica Kirkland, widow of A. L. Kirkland, was the owner-occupant in 1950.

Ann And Clyde Van Arsdall House

2-story side-gable Colonial Revival-style house with exterior end chimney, left side 1-story wing, a door with pilasters and a blind fanlight, and 6-over-6 sash windows. At right is a recessed attached garage. Tyrie Van Arsdall, with the U.S. Navy, was the occupant in 1950.

Forest Hills Clubhouse

The center of the Forest Hills community and the golf course in the 1920s, the clubhouse would become a school, a library, and a community center in subsequent lives.

Shepherd-Mebane House

Shepherd-Mebane House 2814 Chelsea Circle, ca. 1800, moved and expanded 1927, Contributing Building - Hope Valley National Register Historic District George Watts Carr, architect for 1927 additions

Carr-Carver House

Carr-Carver House

1940s (William Franklin Warren Collection, Durham County Library) The house at 909 S. Duke was built around 1926 by Julian Carr's son Austin Carr, who was an executive at the Durham Hosiery Mills. As this was soon after the destruction of Somerset Villa in 1924, it is surmised that the long staircase in the center hall of the house was transplanted...

Temple Baptist / Healthy Start Academy

Temple Baptist Church, 2007 1895 During the early 1880s, Reverend C.C. Durham of the First Baptist Church began a movement to establish Sunday schools in other parts of the city. One of these was located in the house of J.W. Blackwell at 602 South Duke St. J.W. was the brother of W.T. Blackwell, who lived nearby on West Chapel Hill St. With the...