Pearse, Richard L.

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Son of Arthur Pearse; obstetrician-gynecologist who was a founding partner of the Durham Women's clinic.

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1325 Arnette Ave.

10.12.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Below in italics from the NR listing; not verified for accuracy by this author. Side-gabled 2-story Eclectic-style house of gable and wing form, with wide "cottage" weatherboards, and 6-over-6 sash windows. The front wing has such medieval English features as a slight upper story bracketed overhang and an exterior...
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9123 South Lowell Road - Cobb Farms / Pearse House

(Courtesy Cissy Pearse) It's not clear to me who was the original occupant / owner of the house at 9123 South Lowell Road. In ~1908, James S. Cobb acquired multiple tracts of land near Rougemont Road and South Lowell Road. The metes and bounds descriptions of these tracts ( "from the pile of rocks at Sasquatch's corner...," etc.) make it very hard...
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The Eloise

As the Sanborn maps I've shown in previous posts demostrate, large single family homes lined both sides of West Chapel Hill St. during the early 20th century. Per the Historic Inventory, in 1928, Dr. Baird Brooks commissioned well-known Durham architect George Watts Carr to build an apartment building that also held Dr. Brooks' medical office on the northwest corner of Gregson St. and West Chapel Hill St., which he called "The Eloise."
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