Residential

Walter M. & Katherine T. Nielsen House

139 Pinecrest Rd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): Following the expansion of Duke...

Walter A. Biggs House

2116 W. Club Blvd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): The Biggs House near Oval Park in Watts...

James A. and Irene B. Smith House

1417 Acadia Street, 2011 (Courtesy Alex Maness) The J. A. Smith House, 1931 1417 Acadia Street Among the last houses built in Duke Park before the crushing weight of the Great Depression halted nearly all construction, the J. A. Smith House is nevertheless an outstanding example of the Tudor or gothic revival style so popular in the Duke Park...

1005 Fayetteville - John O'daniel House

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) Occupying the entire 'block' between Banks Alley and Cart Place, the house at 1005 Fayetteville St. was built by John O'Daniel.

215 Hood St. / Parrish Place

215 Parrish Place in 1939 (Courtesy of private family collection). Two brick apartment houses were added to a row of earlier homes along Parrish Place - on the south side of the street near its intersection with Ramseur - in the mid-1920s. According to the recollections of a resident who lived at 215 Parrish Place around 1940, "The house was...

217 Hood St

Looking east, 1981. (Courtesy Robby Delius) I've always had a particular affection for the 1920s-era, Colonial Revival apartment building on Hood St. Although as late as the 1980s, above, there was an adjacent apartment building as well, for the time that I've known the building, it has stood alone amidst the warehouses. I used to wonder what in...

Elmo Burroughs House

"About 100 yds south of old Rigsbee Rd just west of its intersection with 751" - June 1940

1435 Acadia St.

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1433 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

1427 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy)