Victorian

The 400 block of Willard St. faced the east side of BN Duke's 'Four Acres' and, one block from the streetcar and downtown proper, constituted a prime address in the late 19th and early 20th century. The pre-eminent house in the block was the Southgate Jones house, previously profiled on this site back in November of 2006. 400 Willard from West...

Jackson St., which once turned to connect with West Pettigrew St. (this section was later renamed Ashton Place) was built out early - with generally large houses, though not of the scale or grandeur of those one block away on West Chapel Hill St. These houses faced the rear of the BN Duke Four Acres property (and the caretaker's house at the back...

814 Vickers, 1970s. Looking northwest at the south end of the 800 block, including 814 Vickers., 01.30.08. From the 1984 National Register listing: Ornamental bracing with a carved sunburst motif in the front pedimented gable adorns this otherwise austere two-story frame house with wraparound front porch. The porch posts probably are placements...

512 Morehead Ave., 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

The house at 528 Holloway was another of the turn-of-the-century Victorians along the Holloway St. ridgeline. Looking north at the intersection of Elizabeth and Holloway. 528 Holloway is on the southwest corner. ~1950s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) During the 1960s, Elizabeth St. was straightened, widened and connected with Fayetteville St. to the south...

Above, 529 Holloway in 1964 529 Holloway is another of the early 20th century large Victorian houses built along the Holloway ridge line. Through the 1970s, the neighborhood had large shade trees, and neighborhood-scale streets (i.e., two-lanes, undivided) 529 Holloway and the remainder of the north side of the 500 block of Holloway St., 1970s...

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 of 521 Holloway, profiled yesterday, purchased 5 properties on the north side of Holloway.

Dillard St., otherwise known as "Mansion Row" contained more modest structures at the northwest extreme, and generally more elaborate structures on the east side of the 200 block, and on both sides of the 100 block near East Main St. 205 N. Dillard, 1963

As we move east of Roxboro, we move out of a transitional area and into the neighborhood of the East End / Cleveland-Holloway as it existed until the late 1960s. The 300 block of Holloway demonstrated the mix of houses sizes and styles typical of parts of the Cleveland-Holloway neighborhood, along with a mix of residential and commercial uses typical of earlier neighborhoods.

426 Roxboro, looking ~east., 1963 February 1966 So, as of 2007, 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...