Farmhouse Victorian

The house at 2810 Hillsborough Road was the longtime residence of members of the Baucom family - Matthew T. Baucom, from sometime in 1925 or prior to ~1956, followed by Daniel Baucom in the late 1950s. As one of the only two-story houses on Hillsborough Road (a rarity in West Durham north of the railroad tracks,) it was converted to apartments by the 1970s. It remained apartments until the mid-1980s, when it went up for sale.

Mangums's Corner, 1914, marked with "Store" to the right of the marking for Mt. Tabor Church. Sam T. Mangum built his home and store at the crossroads of Hampton Road and Hall Road between 1900 and 1914. He located his store on the southeast corner and built his house on the northeast corner. The house was built as an impressive frame Victorian...

Looking northeast, late 1970s Even though these houses remained in a persistently downtrodden state over the last decade or so of their lives, there was something stately about them to me - as I would drive north or south on Buchanan Blvd., the freeway overpass always felt to me a bit like a gateway in and out of the West End, and these two houses - very upright and not fancily adorned - felt a bit like sentinels.

(State Historic Preservation Office) ...as in J.N. Roach, a freight agent for the Southern Railway and early occupant of this house. Although the historic inventory notes that this house was typical of a "type built throughout Durham around the turn of the century" it appears quite unusual to me - incorporating both a simple Victorian farmhouse...