Angier-Wheless House

Samuel Angier, treasurer of Cary Lumber Company, had this one-and-one- half-story frame Type A bungalow built around 1925. Much of the porch, which originally extended across the entire facade to wrap around the east end, has been enclosed.

(The information below in italics is from the Preservation Durham Plaque Application for the Angier-Wheless House)

The house at 1021 West Trinity Avenue was built in 1921-22 for Samuel Jones Angier and his wife Zalene Allen  Angier. S. J. Angier was born in Durham in 1889, one of six children of John Cicero Angier and his wife Lida Duke  Angier. J. C. Angier had been in the railroad and timber business before his untimely death due to a heart attack  in New York City in 1911. 

Lona Evelyn Barbee grew up at 1007 W. Trinity, just down the street from the home where she would spend her  married life. She was born in Harnett County, NC, the middle of three daughters born to Don Carlos and Lona  F. Barbee. Her father was a life insurance agent. Her mother worked as a church secretary, and Evelyn worked as  a bookkeeper for a cigarette manufacturer at the time the 1940 census was taken.