Residential

521 Holloway - Robert M. Jones House

Robert M. Jones, who was an owner of the Markham Jones Feed and Grocery on Orange St. built this house at the time of his marriage around the turn of the century. He also contructed one other house on this side of Holloway St., 517 Holloway.

311 Oakwood - The Proctor House

311 Oakwood was built by William and Melissa Proctor around the turn of the 20th century. Wm. Proctor was the 'cashier' (probably equivalent to the corporate accountant) for the Ellis Stone department store company, which predated Woolworth's as the ground floor retail tenant of the Geer Building. After Mr. Proctor's death in 1910, Ms. Proctor...

520 Holloway St

Above, 520 Holloway in 1964 520 Holloway, the Moore-Umstead House, was constructed in 1903, and is one of the major contributing structures in the Cleveland-Holloway historic district. 520 Holloway in 1979, above. Unfortunately, quite awhile ago, it fell into the hands of James "Fireball" White, where historic properties go to die. It has been...

Victor Bryant House

Victor Bryant House, late 1970s.

Victor Bryant Jr House

Victor Bryant Jr. House, 1981. Between 1925 and 1930, attorney Victor Bryant, Jr., constructed this Colonial Revival house on Vickers Avenue, designed by Northrup and O'Brien. Northrup and O'Brien plans, drawn in 1924. More detail at NCSU library. His father, Victor Bryant, a prominent lawyer in Durham and one-time city attorney, had a large house...

719 Bolton St.

719 Bolton Street prior to demolition in summer 2022 (N. Levy). Triple-A roofed house, seemingly outlined on Sanborn Maps by 1913, but dated in County records to 1925. In the summer of 1945, Odell and Polly E. King purchased the home from their employer, Erwin Cotton Mills Company, which was liquidating its vast stock of worker housing across the...

615 Grant St.

Though county property records date the house at 615 Grant to 1920, the structure resembles those appearing on Sanborn Maps at this location back to 1913. Land here at the eastern edge of Hayti was purchased by William T. and Janie Sears Trice from Vickers heirs as early as 1894. Members of their family would remain here for decades after William...

John Spencer Bassett House

1902 Trinity College map. (Courtesy Duke Archives / Digitized by Digital Durham) One of the four (out of an original five) surviving houses from Trinity College's 'Faculty Row', the house currently located at 1017 West Trinity Avenue is most well known as the house of John Spencer Bassett, a Trinity College History professor. Bassett, in turn, is...

Bassett Dormitory

A dormitory named for Professor John Spencer Bassett, most well-known for the 'Bassett Affair"

801 S. Alston Ave.

The history of South Alston Avenue deserves more attention than it has gotten to date; even this site seems to have looked past it about as quickly as the cars fly on NC-55. Though a north-south road through this area has deep roots and this section looks like it was incorporated into town limits by at least 1907, the east side of Alston around...