People & Places

John H. Gilbert House

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...

John & Emma Repass House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Craftsman-style 1 1/2,-story brick house with a front gable roofwith clipped gable, decorative eave brackets, and 3/1 sash windows. The front door has sidelights and a bracketed arched hood. The north comer recessed porch has brick posts and a...

Brame-Preslar House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two story frame Period House from circa 1930. Colonial Revival details include Tuscan entrance porch, multi-paned transom above front door, and round-arched window with keystone and fanlight marking staircase landing in west elevation.

Morris-Atkins House

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Intact two-story frame Foursquare. Double-hung sash windows composed of three slender panes over single pane. Full-facade attached porch supported by box pylons on brick plinths. Handsome multi- paned entrance flanked by...

Merritt J. and Sarah Maynard House

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1-story tri-gable house with a full hipped-roof Craftsman porch. Alterations include asbestos siding and 2-over-2 horizontal sash windows. 1925-1935 CDs: Sarah Mayhard (sic) occupant. 1937 SM.

Julius C. and Laura G. Goss House

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author. Goss House. 1 1/2 story side-gabled bungalow with a shed dormer window, an engaged Craftsman porch, exposed rafter tails, German siding, and 4-over-1 vertical sash windows. 1925 CD: A. W. Goss, occupant. 1930-1940 CDs: Laura Goss...

Yearby-Smith House

503 Oakwood, 1980 The house sat abandoned over a number of years - it was purchased in 2006, which fortunately saved it from demolition by NIS. Unfortunately, the purchaser thought the best things to do in renovating the house was to rip out the original windows and put in some Home Depot specials. 2006 2006 503 Oakwood, 01.11.11 Fortunately, the...

Upchurch-Yates House

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This 1920s two-story brick Period House has a gambrel· front roof extended by large shed-roofed dormers. The front elevation holds a round-arched attic window, paired nine-over-one windows at the second story and a full-facade...

Two people outside the house. Perhaps Bud and Thelma Davis

Tinnin-Davis House

Tinnin-Davis House, 1921 Ernest Tinnin was a mill hand at Erwin Cotton Mill and worked in the weave room at Mill No. 4 after it opened in 1925. When the house was built, it had wood siding and the front door faced C Street (now called Knox St). Ten years later, they sold the property to the Davises and moved to 911 Carolina, presumably to save...