Frank G. Satterfield House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

Massive two story square shape with weatherboard siding. Hip roof with large hip roofed dormer. Massive bungalow pier- supported veranda topped with a hip roof which continues over a side carriage porch. Porch roof has several distinctive small low-pitched gables. Transom and sidelights around front door.

(The information below in italics is from the Historic Preservation Society of Durham Plaque Application for the Frank G. Satterfield House)

In June 1899 G.C. Farthing sold a parcel of his land at the corner of Mangum and Old Roxboro Road (now Trinity Avenue) to Cornelia L. Burroughs for $1500. According to the deed, the parcel included one half an acre, more or less. In present day terms, this includes 922 North Mangum and 108 & 110 E. Trinity. Mrs. Burroughs, wife of W.H. (whose name is not on the deed) and the mother of 12 children, built a 5-room house on the Mangum Street lot. According to the 1902 city directory she lived at 920 N. Mangum with W.H. and 7 of their children. W.H. died in 1907. She sold the 110 E. Trinity lot to Horace Miller in 1910 for $1800 and then sold the Mangum property (5-room house noted on the deed) and adjoining lot in January 1917 to T.J. Holloway for $500 “& other good, sufficient and valuable considerations." 

T.J. Holloway was part owner of Holloway & Belvin Shoe Company and a 1884 County Commissioner. He only lived on the property for less than 2 years, dying in June 1918 at age 64. His wife Lula continued to live in the house until July 1920 when it was sold at auction on the courthouse steps for $6900; the Mangum Street lot going to J.P. Stanley and the adjoining lot (108 E. Trinity) to I. J. Cox. The Stanleys (J.P. and Minnie) sold the Mangum Street property to Frank Griffin Satterfield, Sr. in April 1921. 

Until Mr. Satterfield purchased the property, its street address was 920 North Mangum Street. From 1922 to the present the address has been 922 North Mangum Street. (Source: City Directories) There is no longer a 920 street address on North Mangum. 

The foot-print of the house shown on the 1913 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows Mrs. Burroughs' 5-room house at 920 North Mangum. The 1937 Sanborn Map shows the new street number and a foot-print of the current house, which is very different from the first. 

2. There are about 100 telephone lines running into the basement. They were installed to accommodate Charlotte Dickerson's home-based answering service for physicians in the Durham and Chapel Hill areas. 

3. When they were filming the movie "Bull Durham," some of the film crew rented rooms in the boarding house that was operating on the property. An annotated copy of the original script was found in the attic during the 1990 renovations. 

4. This property has been the home of The Old North Durham Inn, the first bed and breakfast to open in the City of Durham, since August 1990. 
 

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