Half-timber

This Tudor Revival style house is one of a row of three similar houses on the west side of Hermitage Court, and was built around 1927 for Richard and Elizabeth Slattery, owner of Durham Building Supply. Slattery may have been providing materials for the construction of Duke University's West Campus, since similar materials and commercial building techniques are found in his house and on the campus.

One other eighteenth-century house, which stood until the 1970s, should be remembered for its rarity among dwellings of its time in Orange County - Tyree Harris' Brick House. Probably built in the 1760s, it was about 20 feet square, of half-timbered construction with the exception of the rear chimney wall, which was entirely of brick; within, it...