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Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1930.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. Likely built around 1920, permits suggest this bungalow was demolished some time between 2009 and 2011.

According to county property records, this house was built in 1934.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1920. Prior to the 1930s, Wake Place was called West Alley.

Photograph taken in 2016 for Preservation Durham home tour brochure. Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. The description in italics below was written for the same 2016 tour...

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, the newer house currently at this address was built in 2016. It appears this house was demolished between 2014-2016. 12002 11012002

719 Bolton Street prior to demolition in summer 2022 (N. Levy). Triple-A roofed house, seemingly outlined on Sanborn Maps by 1913, but dated in County records to 1925. In the summer of 1945, Odell and Polly E. King purchased the home from their employer, Erwin Cotton Mills Company, which was liquidating its vast stock of worker housing across the...

The history of South Alston Avenue deserves more attention than it has gotten to date; even this site seems to have looked past it about as quickly as the cars fly on NC-55. Though a north-south road through this area has deep roots and this section looks like it was incorporated into town limits by at least 1907, the east side of Alston around...

Undated photo (c.1980s?) found prior to demolition. Triple-A roofed house, likely the latest of this group to be built or moved to this location, dated in County records to 1930. This home is on the site of the former West Durham Presbyterian Church, which became Blacknall Memorial and moved to a new facility on Perry Street in the mid-1920s. In...

Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with Hillsborough Road, this home had been occupied by the family of Theodore and Hosia Lewis Carden for a few years before the big selloff of Erwin Mills company housing in 1945. Unique among the surrounding mill...