Alabama Avenue

1106 Alabama Ave.

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...

2321 West Club Blvd.

08.28.11 Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. Below, in italics, from the 2001 National Register Historic District nomination for Watts-Hillandale: Hixon-Barton House. Side...

914 Alabama Avenue

08.14.09 11.21.09 10.30.11

1107 Alabama Ave.

10.30.11 Adkins-Williams House. Set far back on a very large lot (for Watts Hillandale - 0.69 acres,) this house is nearly hidden from the street. Rambling, unusual Craftsman-style house with a front gable roof with a heavy front porch with two cross-gables, interiorchimneys, Queen Anne crow's-foot detail eave windows, 1-over-1 windows, a...

1110 Alabama Ave.

10.30.11 John M. Martin House. 1-story, flat-roofed Spanish Mission style house features parapet walls, tiled hoods over the windows and a batten door. The exterior is stucco, with 6-over-6 sash windows flanked by 4-over-4 sashes. A front stone terrace features low stuccoed piers. A side chimney and an attached wood sided shed are on the north side...

2400 West Club Blvd.

Christy N. Hibberd House. Modest 1-story Craftsman style house with a side gable roof with an interior chimney, and deep bracketed eaves with exposed rafter tails. Windows are 4-over-1 Craftsman sash. A shallow gabled entrance porch with Craftsman piers shelters a French door. Additions were added to the side and rear in the 1990s.

2401 West Club Blvd.

08.28.11 Harry F. Watkins House. 2-story, side gabled Colonial Revival house with interior chimneys, 6-over-6 sash windows, double French doors, and a side porch with massive entablature and two huge plain columns. The front entry is a bracketed pergola over a French door. The house has plain siding and appears to have been converted to apartments.

West Durham Pentecostal Holiness Church

(Courtesy Old West Durham) Per the Old West Durham website a Pentecostal mission was established in West Durham in 1911. The group met in the home of CE Cates, located on Gin St. For the next nine years, the group used the SW Avery home on 15th St., "a hall" on 9th St., and AW Utley's home on 13th (Bolton) St. In 1920, a location at Oakland and...

Neighborhood Grocery - Knox And Alabama

1970s view of the Neighborhood Grocery. (Courtesy Old West Durham) A store appears on Sanborn Maps of the corner of Knox (once "C Street") and Alabama Ave by the 1930s. By the mid 20th century, the store was run by Jesse Morrow, who had a kind heart for neighborhood children; per Holly Hall's account on the Old West Durham website:

2700 Lawndale

Jeff Monsein, aluminum baron of Durham, continues his reign of house replacement in Old West Durham with the demolition of 2700 Lawndale, seen above in 2006. I don't have any immediate history available on the house, but it was obviously an attractive little ~1900-1915 house. It appears none of the original mantels or other building materials were salvaged prior to demolition, an extraordinary waste.