Dacian Avenue

213 Dacian Ave.

209 Dacian Ave.

219 Dacian Ave.

211 Dacian Ave.

207 Dacian Ave.

This passive solar 'Harkrader House' was built by New Morning Construction. There are few windows on the east, west and north sides of the house, and numerous windows on the south side of the house, to let in light and warmth in the winter when the sun is low in the sky. The home has a solar hot water heater on the roof.

Register-Honeycutt House

(Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One~story bungalow; brick-veneered first story with stuccoed pedimented gables and engaged pedimented gable-front porch on large brick piers. Circa 1930.

1023 Dacian Ave.

06.14.60 Scovill Wannamaker noted in 1935 City Directory as first resident. 1986 NR nomination: One-and-one-half story Period House distinguished by gabled dormer containing Palladian window. Recessed full-facade porch has replacement foliate metal supports. Circa 1930.

Governor Apartments

Governor Apartments, February 1966 (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) The Governor Apartments, with buildings named after four NC governors (The Vance, The Glenn, The Aycock, and The Bickett,) a brick, colonial revival style apartment block built in the late 1920s. This stylistic choice seems to have been common among...

Emanuel J. Evans House

Still frame from HLW film of Durham, showing the Evans house soon after construction, ~1940 The Evans house was built in 1937 by Eli Evans and his wife Sara; Evans had come to Chapel Hill to attend UNC from Fayetteville, and Sara had come to Durham with her parents, the Nachamsons, who started United Dollar Stores on West Main Street. Eli and Sara were married in 1928 and took over the United Dollar Stores - which would become Evans' United Department Store - in 1929.

George W. Watts School

Watts Elementary at or near completion, 1918 George Watts Elementary is the oldest school building in Durham still serving in its original capacity. (The oldest extant school building is the former YE Smith school on South Driver St.) Watts Elementary was built in 1918 according to the design of architect C. Miller Euler. Originally symmetrical...