Folk Victorian

402 East Piedmont Avenue

The Jones-Tate House

Jones-Tate House (former 1704 Markham)

Many thanks to John Martin, owner of the house, who collected and wrote much of the history I've incorporated into the text below

602 Primitive St.

The Joseph Shipp House is a typical one-story, triple-A-roofed house, three bays wide and single pile.The earliest known resident is Joseph Shipp (bookkeeper, Edgar E. Thompson) in 1907. Shipp is listed as a police officer from 1915 to 1919 and a timekeeper for the City Water Department in 1929. He remained in the house through 1939.

Franklin House - 507 Yancey Street

Built as a rental house ~1901, this house was owner-occupied by the Franklin family for 50 years.

108 E. Trinity Ave.

1984 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (Below in italics is from the 1985 North Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One story triple A frame structure with two wings in back. Weatherboard siding, fishscale treatment in gables, decorative moldings over windows and doors. Attached...

Brame House - 505 Yancey Street

One of two houses built on land originally part of the JW Blackwell house, 505 Yancey and its near-twin at 507 Yancey remain while that house is gone. After suffering a fire in 2010, the house is under renovation

614 Wilkerson St.

805 Clarendon Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story one-room-deep frame house with original wing across rear built 1900s. Alterations include addition of half-story to rear wing, dormers on front block and new porch supports of paired posts with latticework in between.

822 Clarendon Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two-story one-room-deep frame house with hipped roof and rear one-story ell. Features decorative cutwork vent in front gable, pointed arched surrounds at windows and main entrance, Victorian window with colored panes in front door, and almost full...

818 Clarendon Street – Osborne House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Turn-of-the-century frame house with combination of Victorian and neoclassical features. The two-story one-room deep basic house form with a hipped roof is embellished with applied bargeboard in the pointed window lintels and drop pendant brackets...