1908 Cecil Street

35.973435987395, -78.907408095969

1908
Durham
NC
Year built
1947-1950
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National Register
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(January 2018, Photo by Cheri Szcodronski, hmwPreservation)  

Typical of post-World War II housing, this one-story, side-gabled, Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with vinyl siding and windows, paired on the façade, flush eaves, and an interior brick chimney. A replacement door, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by square posts. A shed-roofed porch at the right rear (west) has a vinyl-sided knee wall. County tax records date the house to 1947 and the earliest known occupant is Sandy McClain, a forklift operator at American Tobacco Company, and his wife, Ola, in 1950.

County deed records show that J.F. Williams and his wife, Isadora Gray Williams, sold this lot to Sandy McClain on April 25, 1946.  After his marriage to Ola McClain, they built this house where they raised four children.

The house remains in the McClain family and the owner is listed as the Sandy McClain Estate.

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