703 Cleveland St. - Howerton-Masser House

35.998136, -78.896666

703
Durham
NC
Construction type
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National Register
Neighborhood
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703 Cleveland, 1980

The careful preservation of this house and its siting on a manicured lot filled with mature trees and flowering shrubbery renders it one of the most distinctive houses on Cleveland Street. This two-story single-pile house with triple-A roofline and one-story rear wings was constructed in the 1890s by R. T. Howerton. Howerton established the undertaking company of R. T. Howerton and Sons which today is Howerton-Bryan Funeral Home. The segmental arched windows and entrance with pointed arched lintels, as well as the one-story porch that wraps around three sides of the main block, are typical of popular late nineteenth century housing. The porch has a gable at the entrance bay, Tuscan columns, and a railing with balusters in the shape of urns. The relatively-intact interior retains its converted gaslight fixtures and neoclassical mantelpieces with over-mantels and bevelled mirrors. In the 1930s, the Howerton family sold the house to William E. Masser, a traveling tobacconist in whose family's possession it remained into the 1980s.

July 2006 (Photo by Gary Kueber)

01.12.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber)

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