Bungalow

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, this house was constructed in 1930.

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. Likely built around 1920, permits suggest this bungalow was demolished some time between 2009 and 2011.

Photograph taken in 2016 for Preservation Durham home tour brochure. Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. The description in italics below was written for the same 2016 tour...

The history of South Alston Avenue deserves more attention than it has gotten to date; even this site seems to have looked past it about as quickly as the cars fly on NC-55. Though a north-south road through this area has deep roots and this section looks like it was incorporated into town limits by at least 1907, the east side of Alston around...

Looking southwest at 1217 N. Hyde Park Ave., 08.24.2021 (N. Levy). County property records date this bungalow to 1935, but it seems possible it was built a few years prior. The first residents appear here in the 1929 city directory, the same year that Marion and Alzada Daniels - an African American carpenter and his wife who lived next door at 1215...

12.06.2017 (Durham County Tax Administration) Built in the late 1920s after the subdivision of land owned by heirs of J. W. Smith, this bungalow was home to the family of William and Martha Renn for much of its first decade. In the 1950s and 60s, this was the residence of Daisy Wrenn. Apparently no relation to the previous residents with a similar...

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002. While county records have this bungalow dated to 1943, historical sources suggest it had been built by the late 1920s. The owners at the time - and the first listed residents at this address - were Alexander C. and Vester Suitt Cokley. A. C. Cokley, as his name frequently appears...

This one-story, hip-roofed bungalow is three bays wide and double-pile with a gabled front dormer, an engaged front porch, and a shed-roofed rear ell. The earliest known occupants were A. D. and Mary E. Brewington in the mid-late 1920s.