Homer Street

Clements-Livengood House

The residents of this home applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application. (Application prepared by Sara Lachenman, 4/1 Design.) W. Wallace Clements first owned 1022 Homer. He was born in Durham to William P Clements, a vice-president of Merchants and Mechanics Bank...

1516 Hermitage Court

1999 (DC Tax Photo) Richard E. Elmore House. 1 1⁄2-story side-gabled brick Tudor Cottage with a front shed dormer with half-timbered treatment and gabled dormers. Other features are 6-over-6 sash windows, a recessed corner porch with heavy timber posts, and a 1-story side wing with a bay window with a concave roof. Richard E. Elmore, cashier at...

1010 Homer St. - Muirhead House

Symmerty and a refined, streamlined manipulation of the neoclassical idiom distinguish this stately brick house situated at the crest of a gently sloping hill. Mr. and Mrs. William Muirhead had the house built between 1936 and 1938 according to plans ordered from the New York Times.

1514 Hermitage Ct.

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.