Carolina Circle

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.

1-story Contemporary-style front-gable house on a sloping lot with a lower level beneath the main level, vertical wood siding, no windows on the street front, and a 2-story porch overlooking the woods at rear.

One-story front gable Period Cottage with 9-over-1 and 8-over-8 sash windows, 2 front picture windows, vinyl siding, and an exterior chimney. Bennie L. Daniel, agent at Home Insurance Agency, was the occupant in 1930.

One ½-story brick Tudor Cottage with an L-plan, interior end chimney, and a steep gable terra-cotta tile roof. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Walter M. Browning Jr., a solicitor at Continental Life Insurance Co., was the occupant in 1930.

One ½-story side-gabled Tudor Cottage with clipped gables, a terra-cotta tile roof, stuccoed walls, and 9-over-1 sash windows. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Wallace W. Umplette, a traveling salesman, was the occupant in 1930.

1 ½-story front-gable Tudor Cottage with stucco walls, 9-over-1 sash windows, and an interior chimney. The main entrance is on the left side between stuccoed buttresses. This is said to be a spec house built by New Hope Realty Co. Cecil B. Thompson, department manager at Goodrich Silvertown Inc., was the occupant in 1930.

Allan Gilbert and his wife, Mary, commissioned this quaint Tudor Revival style from George Watts Carr, Sr, because they wanted a similar house to the one they had occupied with their sons Everett and Creighton when they lived in Austria. Gilbert taught English at Duke for many years, was an avid art and antique collector and was considered a true “Renaissance” man. He and his second wife, Beverly, lived in the house until the early 1990s. The current homeowners are the third family to live in the house.

One-story side-gable Minimal Traditional-style house with front-gable wing, interior chimney, 2-bay front porch with boxed posts with arched soffits, and all-over vinyl siding. Ezra Elsenberg was the occupant in 1950.

1 ½-story brick Tudor Cottage with steep side-gable roof, 6-over-6 sash windows, 1 gabled dormer, and a front gable wing with tapering chimney and gabled entrance bay. Duke Hospital physician Walter L. Thomas was the owner-occupant in 1940. According to the 2005 owner it was built in 1938.

From the National Register nomination form of 2005, completed by M. Ruth Little Rustic Neo-Traditional 1- and 2-story house with board-and-batten siding, an engaged porch with stone piers, and a side carport on columns. Front-gable board-and-batten shed at rear. The following information comes from the City Directories and general web searching...