Pyramidal Cottage

November 2002, photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers. According to county property records, this pyramid cottage was built by 1930, but it seems likely to predate that assessment by a decade or more. Originally from a farming family north of town, James Urban Lowe had been drafted and served in Europe during the First World War. A...

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Though Durham County tax records date this house to 1948, it appears this last structure on the south side of Knox Street closest to South Ellerbe Creek was not built until the early or mid-1950s. Left - fragment Durham County Register of...

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1980 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

2000

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Pyramidal cottage with a front cross-gable, a side gabled wing, weatherboard, and 1-over-1 sash windows. The wraparound porch has stone Craftsman piers and replacement metal posts, and is enclosed as a room on the side. 1930 CD, 1937...

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story two-room-deep frame house with tall hipped roof, hip-roofed attic dormer and full-facade porch on tapered box posts and stone plinths. Nine-over-one double-hung sashes and sidelights on one side of entrance. Built 1900s.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Circa 1910 square one-story cottage with high hipped roof, front attic gable and two interior corbelled chimneys. Almost full-facade porch has slightly tapered box posts with molding at top and match stick railing. Lunette window on south side of...

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Almost square one-story frame house with tall hipped roof and shallow offset gabled wing on main facade. Slightly tapered box posts with molding at top and match stick railing support porch following contour across most of facade. House well...