Gloria Avenue

King's Daughters Home

Second King's Daughters Home, soon after construction (mid-1920s) --- "Old Ladies' Home", ~1910, looking northeast from Gloria Ave. (From "Images of America: Durham" by Stephen Massengill The International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, per the organization's website, was founded January 13, 1886, as "an organization of Christian men and...

John J. and Nora Thaxton House

10.27.16 (From the TP NR nomination:) Durham County Deputy Sheriff and County Tax Collector J .J. Thaxton is the earliest known occupant of this two-story Neo- Colonial frame house built early in this century. It is one of the very few in Trinity Park that retains its original abundance of stained glass, appearing in six windows on the main facade...

401-403 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This four-unit row house was built by George Allen in the early 1920s. The roofline of the two-story brick structure is symmetrically composed with two large front facing gables centered by a dormer. Each two-bay unit has its own porch and multi-...

Talbott B. Smith House

1999 (DC tax photo) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A typical example of a Foursquare with Colonial Revival detailing built in 1916 for Talbot Smith. The high hipped roof with front dormer is crossed by a gable which forms slight two-story projections on both sides. Wide eaves...

1026-1028 Gloria Ave.

07.05.06 (DC Tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) c. 1925 two-story rectangular, brick- veneered Colonial Revival style duplex with slate-covered gable roof. Each entrance bay marked by slender paired Doric columns and pilasters supporting boxed cornice which is...

Rufus H. Powell, Jr. and Elizabeth Reade Powell House

01.02.08 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The squat, panelled elephantine box pylons carrying the shallow arch of the full-facade engaged porch lend distinction to this otherwise typical Type A frame bungalow. The house was built c. 1920 by Durham contractor...

1022 Gloria Ave.

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two-story frame Foursquare sheathed with German siding; pyramidal roof. Originally very similar to 1020 Gloria. Unsympathetically altered in 1971 with small French doors replacing the second-story windows, full-facade porch...

1020 Gloria Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Pyramidal-roofed two-story frame Foursquare built c. 1910 with attached wraparound porch supported by Doric columns and pilasters. Entrance bay accented by projecting pediment supporting paved fluted columns resting on...

1018 Gloria Ave.

09.04.07 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Very similar to 1016 Gloria, with the major difference the porch configuration. The c. 1915 house features shed-roofed attached porch carried by square wooden posts set on brick plinths. Entrance surround altered by...

1014 Gloria Ave.

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) C. 1920 one-and-one-half-story cross gable-roofed Type A bungalow with classical detailing in the denticulated porch cornice and heavy, fluted tapering porch posts set on granite-trimmed brick plinths. Heavy triangular...