Formosa Avenue

(06.28.2002, from volunteer survey by Preservation Durham)

(409 Formosa in the foreground at right. Photo from the 1982 publication, The Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory, p.119. Homes at 407, 405, and 403 Formosa also visible to left in background.) This Craftsman-style bungalow was one of the first houses in the emerging College Heights neighborhood, a short half-block west of Fayetteville...

(407 Formosa at center, second from right. Photo from the 1982 publication, The Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory, p.119. Homes 405 and 403 Formosa also visible to left in background, 409 Formosa in the right foreground.) (06.28.2002, from volunteer survey by Preservation Durham)

(December 2017, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile with a brick veneer, vinyl windows, and vinyl siding in the gables, dormers, and on the center portion of the façade, under the porch roof. A six-light...

(January 2018, Photo by Cheri Szcodronski, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: One of a number of stone houses in the district, this one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and triple-pile with flush eaves. The house features mostly replacement slider windows, though original...

Home of Selena Warren Wheeler (daughter of Stanford Warren,) who worked as a librarian, and John H. Wheeler, who held various executive officer positions in the Mechanics and Farmers bank. Their son, Warren Hervey Wheeler, was born in 1943 and lived in this house as a boy; he became the first African-American graduate of the American Flyers School...

From the 1998 Preservation Durham Home Tour Booklet: A house-plan book of the late 1920s would surely have described the Alfonso Elder house as "A Bungalow of English Inheritance." Indeed, the design of this well-built, nicely-detailed house appears to be influenced by the book "Small Homes of Architectural Distinction, published by the ARchitect's...