Four Square

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Contractor Connie H. Shipp built this house for his family in the 1910s; his daughter continued to live in it into at least the 1980s. As a mason, Shipp worked on many of Durham's important structures including Trinity Park's Watts St. Baptist Church...

05.24.2007 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1920s for Philo Bussell, vice president of Durham Industrial Bank. With a brick facade laid in Flemish bond, this Foursquare is enriched by its hipped roof extending to form wide boxed eaves containing paired...

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) In the 1920s, contractor T.H. Lawrence built this shingled Foursquare for his own home. Two interior chimneys are balanced on the hip roof and attic dormer contains leaded glass. Shaped rafter ends appear in the wide eaves. A...

01.12.2012 (DC tax photos) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Said to have been built in 1910s by real estate agent Rufus Aiken, this frame Foursquare reportedly served as a convent for Ronan Catholic nuns who were nurses. Two interior chimneys are symmetrically located on the hipped...

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1920s for lawyer Frank Fuller, Jr., this shingled Foursquare is distinguished by four-over-one paired or grouped windows, boxed cornices, a multi-paned front door, and a side hall plan. An attached porch is topped by...

1999 (DC Tax Office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1920s for John M. Cheek, manager of Cheek-Holton Manufacturing Co., frame Foursquare with a pyramidal roof and hip-roofed dormer. Eaves contain exposed rafter ends. There is a slight one-story shed-roofed projection...

06.22.2011 (DC Tax Office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Reportedly another of Rufus Aiken's speculative ventures; this 1910 house was the home of city auditor Zalph Rochelle. The main block with dormer is similar to the adjacent house at 607 Watts. Hip-roofed projections on each...

DC tax office, 1999 (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One of several boxy, two-story frame houses said to have been built by realtor Rufus Aiken. It has a side hall plan and a slate-covered hipped roof fronted by a hip-roofed dormer. Wraparound porch has tapered box posts on brick...

(DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) L.M. Edwards, M.D., had this Foursquare with deep box cornices and a one-story wraparound porch constructed in the early 1920s. Dr. Edwards occupied the house until the early 1960s. The most notable feature of the house is the...

06.22.11 (DC tax office) Reputedly the seeond house of W.H. McAllister, built in 1925. Brick Foursquare fronted by a Mission style curvilinear parapet centered on hip roof. Stone lintels top the nine-over-one paired windows with keystones on the first-story. A full-facade porch contains classically detailed box posts on stone·piers and paired...