Victorian

1206 N. Elizabeth St.

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

Whitesell House - 420 Morris Street

The most impressive of the remaining houses on Morris Street is the house at 420 Morris St., the Whitesell House. It retains signficant elaborate exterior millwork on the porch and each gable peak. Some resemblance can be noted with the houses that were located on the the corner of Morris and Morgan St. Whitesell House, 1980. Whitesell House, 2006...

120 E. Seeman St.

1981 (Old North Durham Architectural Slides collection, Durham County Library)

203 East Trinity Avenue

Constructed early in the 20th century by the Murray family, this two story, T-shaped house was long associated with its subsequent owners, the J.P. Whitley family.

1007 Morning Glory Ave.

1007 Morning Glory in 01.11.08 A small portion of 1007 Morning Glory is visible on the right in this 1979 shot. (NCSHPO) 1007 Morning Glory was a long-time Vinson Braswell property that was purchased in 2006 by the Durham Housing Authority. As funding wound down for the HOPE VI project, none evidently remained to renovate 1007 Morning Glory. The...

1003 Morning Glory Ave.

1003 Morning Glory, ~1980 01.04.08 04.19.12 As an open space, this lot has hosted some fun community events in recent years.

1003 Worth Street

1984 --- Three houses were built along the 900 block of Morning Glory Avenue (the 100 block in the above picture) near the entry to the Golden Belt Manufacturing Co. around 1901. Somewhat more specialized than the mill houses to the east, I speculate that they might have been built for managerial types, or may have been built by private contractors...

1004 Worth St.

Looking southeast, March 1979 Looking southwest, 01.04.08 A new home was built on the site in 2015. 03.04.2015 (G. Kueber) 03.26.15 (G. Kueber) 04.29.16 (N. Levy)

506 Fayetteville St. - The John Merrick House

One of the grand houses of the elite in the African-American community of the early 20th century in Durham, John Merrick's house later belonged to Dr. Clyde Donnell before being demolished in the early-to-mid 1960s.

411 Walker Street

411 Walker St., 02.28.1989 (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Before being torn down around 1990, this was one of a string of five identical one-story, single-family mill houses built along Walker Street (the others at 409, 415, 417, and 419), each with a three bay gabled frame, shed porch in the front, and exterior shed in the rear. The decorative...