Residential

109 Nelson Street

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcondronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 This one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house is four bays wide and double-pile with vinyl siding and windows and an interior brick chimney. Windows wrap around the front corners of the building and likely replaced original metal-sash windows common on this type of...

201 Jackson St.

201 Jackson (Courtesy Durham County Library) Additional copyrighted photographs with 201 Jackson in the background can be found here, here, and here. The 200 block and 300 block of Jackson St. were essentially a single block, the numbering change occurring where Ashton Place met, but did not cross Jackson at mid-block. It ran from Willard St. on...

2000 Otis Street

January 2018 photograph by Cheri Szcodronski ( hmwPreservation) for the National Register Historic District application. This one and a half story, side-gabled Minimal traditional-style house is typical of post -World War II construction, though was altered with the addition of a porch and rear two-story ell, constructed after 1950. The house...

303 Clark St.

Photograph taken by Preservation Durham volunteers, August 2002 According to Durham County property records, this home predates many of the others on the block, having been built around 1935.

203 Pekoe Ave.

Photograph by Cheri Szcodronski for National Register application, January 2018 The elongated form of this Ranch house is well suited to the large lots on the west end of the district. The house is six bays wide with a projecting, front-gabled wing on the left (north) end of the façade and a side-gabled garage wing on the right (south) end. The...

2102 Concord Street

Photograph taken by Heather Slane, National Register Historic District Submission, December 2017 Located at the southwest corner of Concord and Pekoe, this one-story, gable-on-hip-roofed Ranch is five bays wide and three bays deep with a concrete foundation, brick veneer, vinyl windows, louvered vents in the gables, and an interior brick chimney...

601 Ramseur Street (1890s-1954 )

The original path of Elizabeth St. still persists south of East Main, roughly equidistant between Dillard and Fayetteville St., which is now where N. Elizabeth deposits its southbound traffic. The old route was a smaller, winding street that traveled north of E. Main through the current Liberty St. Apartments housing project, connecting with the original Elizabeth St. somewhere between Liberty and Holloway.

Latta-Stromsland House

09.09.11 (Below in italics is from the 2003 Lakewood Park National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Edward J. Latta House. Distinguished 2-story, L-shaped, hipped roof house with a front cross gable, weatherboards, tall 9/1 sash windows, and wide boxed eaves. The glazed door has sidelights and a transom. The 1-story...

Duke Factory (old Cigarette Factory)

The Duke Cigarette Factory was built in 1884 to replace the wooden structure that Washington Duke constructed just to the west of the site in 1874. The original wood frame tobacco factory. Taken from approximately present-day West Chapel Hill Street (west of the railroad tracks) looking north. Washington Duke's original house is on the left. (From...

Plyer-Raba House

(11.16.2017 - Durham County Tax Administration photo) In italics below from the 2004 filing for the Trinity Park National Register Historic District boundary increase that included this property: Rev. Marion T. Plyler House. Colonial Revival-style 2-story brick house with side-gabled roof and flanking flat-roofed wings with wooden roof balustrades...