People & Places

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): The lovely Colonial Revival house at the center of the Hillandale Commons development was not, despite its surroundings, ever intended to be a suburban house. It was instead designed and built to be the...

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Charlie Hackney House. 2-story side-gable I-House with much alteration, including all-over vinyl, replacement sash windows, a 1-story hipped porch with vinyl-covered columns, and an upstairs front addition and porch balcony addition...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): Formerly part of the estate of Miss Demerius Dollar, the land in the northern part of Trinity Park sits was divided into lots for sale in 1925. Development stalled with the onset of the Depression...

03.22.2012 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Classic two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival style frame house built 1920s. One-story wing consisting of a porte-cochere and sunporch flank the gable-roofed main block. A portico upheld by thin Tuscan columns shelters...

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) Excerpt from the Preservation Durham Historic Plaque Application for 116 W. Lynch Street, Durham, North Carolina By Grayson Baur, 2018 Information about the Property, its Owners, Residents, and History: The early history of the bungalow at 116 West Lynch is bound up with the history...

This substantial brick bungalow has side and front- gabled roofs and an engaged porch with a dentil frieze, brick posts, and a solid brick railing with ramped concrete coping. It was owned by DW Brown, who owned a dry cleaners on Driver Street for many decades.

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing, not verified for accuracy by this author.) Pyramidal cottage with a hipped dormer window and engaged porch. Alternations include replacement smaller sash windows, replacement porch posts, and all-over vinyl siding. 1930 CD. NC-alt. NC Shed. Ca.2003. Front-gable shed with...

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing, not verified for accuracy by this author.) Pyramidal cottage with a front cross-gable, 6-over-6 sash windows, and a hipped porch with replacement posts. Aluminum siding. 1930 CD.