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Brick and stone veneer over frame
409 Cecil Street
Photograph taken by Cheri Szcodronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 Modern details on this one-story, hip-roofed Ranch include a low-pitched roof with deep eaves and stacked, metal-framed awning windows. The house is three bays wide with a projecting, hip-roofed entrance bay centered on the façade. The solid wood door with...
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415 Cecil St. - Robert & Catherine Page House
January 2018, photo by Cheri Szcodronski From the National Register Historic District application: 415 Cecil Street – Robert E. and Catherine B. Page House – c. 1955 Contributing Building This one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house has a distinctive stone veneer on the façade only. The house is five bays wide and double-pile with a concrete block...
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401 Brant St.
(06.28.2002, from volunteer survey by Preservation Durham)
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2114 E. Main St
Below in italics is from the 2004 NRHP East Durham documents - not verified for accuracy by this author. 1-story side-gable house with Queen Anne-style finish, including decorative shingled gables and 6-over-9 sash windows. About 1950 this was remodeled as a duplex, with a brick-veneered facade with corner quoins and a dentil cornice. The 2 front...
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Robert And Anna Whalen House, 2008
Robert and Anna Whalen House 3300 Avon Road, 2008, Noncontributing Building W. Hutch Johnson, architectural designer
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Wiley And Elizabeth Forbus House (nr 2004)
Wiley and Elizabeth Forbus House (NR 2004) 3307 Devon Road, 1933, ca. 1985, 2004, Contributing Building G. Murray Nelson, architect George W. Kane, builder
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Watts And Anne Ivey Norton House
3812 Dover Road, 1928, ca. 1967, Contributing Building George Watts Carr (original house) and Kenneth Scott (rear addition), architects Two-story side-gabled Tudor Revival with brick exterior,
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Toms-Council House
3432 Dover Road, ca. 1928, ca. 2005, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled Tudor Revival house with brick, stone, and stucco exterior; wood casement windows; slightly projecting centered front-gabled entry wing and slightly shorter recessed two-story side-gabled wing at north end; slate roof; shed-roof dormers; compatible addition made at side and rear side wing, using similar and complementary materials. City directories and deeds show that Clinton and Annie Toms moved from Hermitage Circle in Forest Hills to this house between 1928 and 1931; Toms was the president of the Venable Tobacco Company. From the mid-1940s through the end of the period of significance, Commodore and Bettie Council lived here. Commodore T. Council Sr. was one of the formulators of the BC Remedy, a headache powder invented and manufactured in Durham through the 1960s.
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C.T. And Madeline Council House
3430 Dover Road, ca. 1946, ca. 1995, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival side-gabled house on raised basement with brick exterior; 6/6, 4/4, and multi-lite fixed sash; interior corbelled brick chimneys; gabled wall dormers flanking center gable-front entry bay faced with stone; single-leaf centered entry set into molded surround with fluted pilasters, half-round arch, and sidelights and transom window; triple window topped by fanlight in gable end above main entry; large addition at rear repeats gabled roof line and fanlight details and includes garages and additional living space. Neighborhood oral history identifies this at the C. T. Council Jr. House. The 1947 city directory shows C. T. Council Jr., the plant manager of his father’s BC Remedy Company, living on Dover Road in Hope Valley. He and his wife Madeline apparently moved from W. Club Boulevard, near Watts Hospital, sometime after 1944. His father lived next door around the same time.
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