Ranch style

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Shortly after moving into the house at 2211 Arrington Street, the owner’s husband, a zoology professor at Duke, found a perfect arrowhead in the large backyard. The artifact remains prominently displayed in the study, the professor’s favorite room in the house. Perhaps the arrowhead had once belonged to the...

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Durham architect Robert Winston “Judge” Carr Sr., AIA, designed the 1953 Contemporary Ranch house at 73 Beverly Drive for his family that included wife, Julia Toms Carr, and their four children. The younger son of Amy Winston Carr and George Watts Carr Sr., Robert Carr was called “Judge” for most of his life after...

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Surrounded by modest Minimal Traditional and Ranch Style houses of the 1940s and ‘50s, this high-style Modernist Ranch on its large lot is a bit of a surprise. It was built for Brinkley and Orpah King in 1967. The Kings founded and operated the King’s Red & White Super Market at the northeast corner of Club...

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Prominently situated above West Knox Street are three matching Ranch Style homes on deep wooded lots, all built in 1953 by and for men of Durham’s Greatest Generation. All four men graduated from Durham High School at the onset of the second World War and served their country overseas. All four returned to Durham...

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 The house at 225 Pineview Road is an early example of a hipped-roof ranch in the Rockwood neighborhood. The house illustrates the story of the development, retains many original features, and is an example of sensitive additions having been done well. The Rockwood subdivision – nestled between Durham Chapel Hill...