Shingle Style

Linthicum-Stoner House

Stoner House, approx 1920 (postcard sent in 1924.) Back of postcard from Dr. Ira Stoner, 1924. One of my favorite odd and slightly spooky houses in Durham is now much less so in bright blue, and looks surprisingly more fairy talesque. National Register Entry: Dr. Ira J. Stoner House. Unusual 2-story, front gabled, Shingle Style house features...

Hillandale Country Club

(Courtesy John Schelp) Around the turn of the 20th century, John Sprunt Hill acquired several hundred acres west of Durham (which he referred to as "that old Jones Land".) Like all of Durham's wealthiest men of the period, Hill established a gentleman's farm. Unlike most of them, he had a strong genuine interest in the economics of farming, and...

Ted Bovard House, 1950

Ted Bovard House 3620 Stratford Road, ca. 1950, ca. 2004, Noncontributing Building

College Inn / Epworth Inn - Trinity College

A large, rambling Shingle Style structure, the building was a center for social activity at the college, a dormitory, and hotel. The first floor contained a dining hall, parlor, chapel, and guest rooms. The second and third floors contained 75 dormitory rooms. Board was $10 a month at the dining hall. An on-site dynamo provided electricity sufficient to provide a light bulb in every dormitory room - more than the vast majority of the city of Durham could claim at the time.

Flowers-Spears House

Flowers-Spears House, 1980 Per the historic inventory, WW Flowers, president of the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company commissioned well-known Charlotte architecture firm CC Hook to design the house at 501 Watts St. for his father, George Washington Flowers in the early 1910s. Rear of the Flowers-Spears House, 06.19.57 The contractor was John T...

Samuel L. Leary / Coletta House - 809 Cleveland St.

At the turn of the century (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Chamber of Commerce Collection) The house at 809 Cleveland St. is referred to in the architectural inventory as "one of the foremost late 19th century architectural designs surviving in Durham." The house was built by Philadelphia architect Samuel Leary around 1890, who...