Eclectic

Stoner House, approx 1920 (postcard sent in 1924.) Back of postcard from Dr. Ira Stoner, 1924. One of my favorite odd and slightly spooky houses in Durham is now much less so in bright blue, and looks surprisingly more fairy talesque. National Register Entry: Dr. Ira J. Stoner House. Unusual 2-story, front gabled, Shingle Style house features...

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as lot 14 of the Geerwood Park Subdivision, PB5A/P74. Unusual combination of features, including short Tuscan columns with a solid porch rail, corbeling throughout the eaves, standing seam pitched roof across the front gable. This was the long-time home of Thomas J. and Bettie Thompson. Thomas (T. J.) purchased...

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

The 200 block of West Main St. was first the site of one of Durham's earliest major warehouses before it was home to Durham's first skyscraper; the Banner 'Drive In' warehouse was built on the site during the 1880s. Banner Warehouse, ~1884, looking north from south of West Main Street. (Courtesy Duke RBMC - Wyatt Dixon Collection) The Banner...

1999 An impressively detailed house that predated the others on this side of the block by several decades. Richmond Allen acquired the land from D (?T) Vickers in 1887 (DB 9, P381.) I can barely make out the details on the handwritten deed; the house most likely dated from the 1890s. Allen was a carpenter, and may have built the house himself...

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...

Norman Mason House 3313 Devon Road, ca. 2005, Noncontributing Building Two-and-a-half-story side-gabled Neocolonial house with cementitous siding and 9/9 sash. The house replaced the Boyd House, a two-story Colonial Revival-style frame house built in 1933 for Dr. Boyd, a history professor at Duke who wrote The Story of Durham: A City of the New South, published in 1925. This home was the first significant teardown in Hope Valley where a large out of character structure replaced the razed home on a premier lot. See listing for W. K. Boyd House.

3007 Surrey Road, ca. 1931, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled house with brick exterior at main body, 8/8 sash, full-width inset front porches with vertical sheathing at first and second stories, board-and-batten siding at gable ends, single-leaf paneled front door, brick interior chimney and brick end chimney at west side, enclosed side porch at east side and low pierced-brick wall surrounding patio in front of enclosed porch. City records date the house to 1931. A deed shows that John and Elizabeth Lanning bought the house in 1936 from the Storm King Corporation; the previous owner has not been identified. John T. Lanning was an assistant professor at Duke University. Garage 3007 Surrey Road, ca. 1931, Contributing Building One-story, front-gabled frame garage with vertical wood siding and open entry.