Residential

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 The house at 225 Pineview Road is an early example of a hipped-roof ranch in the Rockwood neighborhood. The house illustrates the story of the development, retains many original features, and is an example of sensitive additions having been done well. The Rockwood subdivision – nestled between Durham Chapel Hill...

According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1920.

According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1924.

According to Durham County tax records, this house was built in 1934.

1024 Angier Avenue was once home to a mill house built by Durham Hosiery. The floor layout shows it was Durham Hosiery's "F" type house, with an "indoor" bathroom. Based on the source, it is likely this house was built before 1913, and demolished after 1979. “Inventory of Edgemont and East Durham Early Textile Mill Villages.” North Carolina Digital...

The earliest grand houses on the east side of Durham were built along Roxboro and the first two blocks of East Main St. east of the intersection of those two streets. Some of the early, more forgotten names in Durham history - Day, Lyon, Fuller - industry magnates who faded from the scene as business consolidated around the Blackwell/Carr and, later, Duke empires. Few records of these early houses remain, except for intriguing footprints on the early Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, and most of them did not survive the early 20th century.

Looking west from the intersection of N. Queen and E. Main (in the foreground), 1940. This blurry shot gives a sense of the pattern of houses on the west side of the 100 block of N. Queen St., typically large houses, somewhat less grand than those that once existed along East Main (a few of which are still visible in this view.) There are no good...

311 Oakwood was built by William and Melissa Proctor around the turn of the 20th century. Wm. Proctor was the 'cashier' (probably equivalent to the corporate accountant) for the Ellis Stone department store company, which predated Woolworth's as the ground floor retail tenant of the Geer Building. After Mr. Proctor's death in 1910, Ms. Proctor...