2013 Cleveland-Holloway Home Tour, Oct 5th

This self-guided walking tour will be held on October 5th, 2013.

http://clevelandholloway.blogspot.com/2013/08/2013-home-tour.html

801 Cleveland/ Freeland Markham House

The Freeland Markham house, built ~1905, was one of three houses belonging to members of the Markham family on Cleveland Street, and the only one still standing. It is the most architecturally impressive house remaining on Cleveland Street, with copious neoclassical Victorian detail.

510 Oakwood Ave.

This side-gabled house is a traditional house form, and it is three bays wide and single-pile. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map and the earliest known resident is Mrs. Addie Ellington, widow of T. M. Ellington, in 1919.

John H. Gilbert House

524 Holloway - Henry Wilkerson House

524 Holloway, 1964. Henry Wilkerson was an administrator at the Golden Belt Hosiery Mill. He had this house constructed, likely around the time the Hosiery Mill began operations nearby, in 1901.

604 Primitive St.

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is four bays wide and single-pile with a stuccoed brick foundation, vinyl siding and soffits, and an asphalt-shingled roof. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map. Early residents of the modest house were Ira F. Cates and Melvin Peed (clerk) in 1915, O. B. Tenney (electrician) in 1919, and Mrs. Emma Branch...

510 Holloway - R. Pearcy Reade House

510 Holloway, likely 1960s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The R. Pearcy Reade house was built around 1900 by Mr. and Mrs. William B. McGary, who purchased the land from Julian Carr. Originally the house, like the others around it, was Victorian / Queen Anne in style. In 1909, R. Pearcy Reade purchased the house from the McGarys. In the late 1920s, he...

Jones Rental House

Credit goes to Heather's comments on my post yesterday for today's historical background: She wrote that 523 Holloway, a cross-gabled Victorian with a front-facing bay and large corner brackets, was "likely constructed by Robert (and Susan) Gilbert who purchased the property in the mid-1880s." When Robert Gilbert died in 1908, RM Jones, the owner...

501 N. Elizabeth St.

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is three bays wide and single-pile with an engaged front porch supported by replacement square posts and accessed by an off-centered flight of stairs and ramp. (The house formerly had two sets of steps to the front porch). The earliest known residents are Lewis Turner Wilcox and Mrs. Carrie Wilcox in 1911/12...

422 North Roxboro

422 Roxboro, looking ~east. So, the deal between the city and Housing for New Hope to essentially donate the eastern side of the 400 block of North Roxboro to the non-profit to construct a "10 unit apartment building for the homeless" is now public, in yesterday's Herald-Sun, which refers to the land as "nearly unusable." The catch in the 1 dollar...

507 Gurley St.

(Below in italics is from the 2009 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This pyramidal-roofed house with a gable over the front entrance retains its original form. The house is three bays wide and double-pile. A one-story, hip-roofed block extends from the right (north) rear of the house with a small, shed-roofed...

708 Holloway Street

1999 (DC Tax Office) 2013 (Courtesy Michael Wright)

710 Holloway Street

Oakwood Park

Looking northwest at the corner, 2007. The northwest corner of Oakwood and Holloway was vacant until the 1920s-1930s, at which point it became a gas station. It would become one of 4 gas stations on Holloway between Oakwood and Roxboro, an Esso station across the street from the Pure Oil station on the southeast corner of N. Dillard and Holloway...

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