Residential

412 Dowd St.

1981 Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002.

402 East Piedmont Avenue

916 N. Elizabeth St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1930.

910 Gurley St.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. Likely built around 1920, permits suggest this bungalow was demolished some time between 2009 and 2011.

512 Gray Ave.

According to county property records, this house was built in 1934.

Eugene Morehead House (first)

Eugene Morehead's house, looking west-southwest from S. Duke St. - 1895. (Courtesy Duke Archives)

George Watts House - Harwood Hall

Harwood Hall, 1920s. (From "Favored by Fortune" by Howard Covington) The title of Howard Covington's book about the Watts and Hills of Durham- "Favored by Fortune" - seems somewhat trite at first glance, but it is an apt description of George Watts' entry into the gentry of Durham. When your father buys you a 1/5 share in the Duke and Sons Tobacco...

Budd House - 903 S. Duke

W. P. Budd, a partner in the Budd-Piper Roofing Company, commissioned Raleigh architect Murray Nelson to design this two-and-one-half-story Tudor Revival style house in the late 1920s. One of the first domestic projects by noted Durham contractor George W. Kane, the house exhibits handsome Tudoresque elements throughout.

Louis A Carr House

Louis A. Carr, despite the familiar last name, was not directly related to Julian Carr; rather he came to Durham from Baltimore in the late 1880s or early 1890s. He became a partner with Samuel T. Morgan in the Durham Fertilizer Company, and along with Julian Carr and George Watts, he formed the Interstate Telephone and Telegraph company in 1894, about which I've written more here.

306 Wake Pl.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1920. Prior to the 1930s, Wake Place was called West Alley.