Minerva Avenue

~1940 (Courtesy Dana Few Pope) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Durham historian, history professor and librarian W.K. Boyd was the original owner of the circa 1912 Colonial Revival style house. Each plane of the hipped roof carries gabled dormers; the two-story main block is...

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1920s for William Rand, manager of Durham's Coca-Cola Company, this two-story brick house is a fine exarrple of pattern book Colonial Revival styling popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The side-gable slate roofline...

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built c. 1925 for Dorian Harris, real estate and insurance agent, this Type A bungalow displays the unusual feature of a slightly convex roofline on the main facade engaging the full-facade porch on solid prick piers. The...

Two-story frame Neo-colonial house with projecting bay on main elevation lighlighted by lunette in pedimented gable. Pyramidal roof pierced by interior chimney with corbelled cap. Full-facade porch supported by square posts and pilasters. Entrance bay retains original single-pane sidelight atop recessed rrolded panels. Known for long-time owner...

One-and-one-half-story, three-bay gambrel-roofed frame house with full-facade shed-roofed second story dormer. Exposed rafter ends and decorative triangular brackets. Full-facade engaged porch supported by tapered square posts on brick plinths.

Carmichael Warehouse under construction in 1926, shot from the top of the Hicks warehouse looking northwest. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)