Residential

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as lot 14 of the Geerwood Park Subdivision, PB5A/P74. Unusual combination of features, including short Tuscan columns with a solid porch rail, corbeling throughout the eaves, standing seam pitched roof across the front gable. This was the long-time home of Thomas J. and Bettie Thompson. Thomas (T. J.) purchased...

Durham County Tax Administration photograph, September 2017. From the 1982 Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory (p.171, entry for 803 North Duke two doors south, built at the same time): "During the first decade of this [20th] century, the Pearl Cotton Mills built a row of one-story frame houses along the west side of the 800 block of N...

12.07.12 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Noted as Lot 13 of the Geerwood Park subdivision (PB5A/P74), this property was purchased from the original developer by Adolphus and Dillie Jones in December 1915. Though the ostensible purchase price referenced on deeds is notoriously unreliable, the amount given in this case - $2,900 - makes it plausible that the...

"Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Strudwick" - Milestones Along the Color Line, 1922. William C. Strudwick was a physician with an office in the "Strudwick Building," on the corner of Roney and East Chapel Hill Sts.

(Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Vernacular 1-story house of gable-and-wing form, with a side-gable roof, a front cross-gable, a wraparound porch, and 2/2 sash windows. Alterations include replacement porch posts and railing and vinyl siding and trim. It...

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The symmetrical three-bay facade features a gable entry porch on plain box posts. Although it was built in the 1950s, it is compatible with the neighboring older buildings. Now covered with vinyl siding.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A 1950s two-story, two-room-deep frame house sheathed in weatherboards molded to look like shingles. A hipped roof is set off by scallop detailing at the cornice. Shuttered eight-over-eight windows and an entry topped by a swan's neck pediment with...

The very large lot with mature trees and the semi-circular driveway with stone posts flanking the entrances enhance the distinction of this large two-story frame house with bungalow features. At the time of its construction in the 1920s, it was the only house in this block. Clipped gable rooflines, exterior sheathing of alternating tall and short...

1-1/2 Storey English Tudor Revival residence (circa 1928) at northeast corner of North Gregson and Demerius Streets