Shepherd Street

902 Shepherd Street

09.04.11 From the 1985 National Register Historic District application for Morehead Hill: One of the most distinctive of the moderately-sized frame houses characterizing the northwest end of the Morehead Hill District. Now a duplex, it is one-and-one-half stories tall with a clipped gable roof and a two-tiered hip-roofed porch at the entrance bay...

Second / Temple Baptist Church

During the early 1880s, Reverend C.C. Durham of the First Baptist Church began a movement to establish Sunday schools in other parts of the city. One of these was located in the house of J.W. Blackwell at 602 South Duke St. J.W. was the brother of W.T. Blackwell, who lived nearby on West Chapel Hill St. With the growth in population in the West End...

808 Wells St.

(Durham County Tax Photo) Two story hipped-roof colonial revival with 6/6 windows. One-story flat-roofed wing projects from the southwest side of the house. The house was built by Dr. Arthur London and his wife in the 1930s. London was a prolific pediatrician who held academic positions at both Duke and UNC and was Chief of Pediatrics at Watts...

801 Yancey St.

1110 Shepherd St. - R. Beverly Raney House

From the 2003 National Register listing: Two-story Colonial Revival-style house with board and batten siding on the lower story and plain weatherboard on the upper story, paired 6-over-6 sash windows, and flanking 1-story shed wings. The attached 2-car carport at the rear is probably an addition. R. Beverly Raney, a surgeon at Duke Hospital, had...

802 Parker St. - James P. Davis House

From the 2003 National Register listing: Minimal Traditional-style 1-story side-gable brick house with a gable end chimney, a front-gabled entrance annex, and 6-over-6 sash windows. The house has an east side porch that has been enclosed as a sunroom. An original l-car garage at the rear is connected by a breezeway. James P. Davis, Davis Baking Co...

1215 Shepherd St.

This passive solar 'Harkrader House' sits on stilts and has an elevated bridge entry. The multiple windows on the southern side of the house let in additional light and warmth in the winter months, when the leaves are off the trees and the sun sits low in the sky.

1201 Shepherd St.

1999 01.19.14 02.13.14

1219 Shepherd St - Gulley House

1219 Shepherd St was one of the first homes built in Durham by Richard and Lonna Harkrader. Their company New Morning Construction went on to construct numerous single family homes and apartments in Durham and the Morehead Hill neighborhood. The home was designed and built for the Harkrader's friends, twin brothers Wib and Dub Gulley. Wib Gulley went on to become the Mayor of Durham.

1002 Shepherd St.

~1970 1999 (Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story gable-roofed frame bungalow with attached gable-front porch on weatherboarded tapered piers across main facade. Large curved brackets decorate the deep eaves. Appears to date from 1920s.