Duke University Road

614 Chapel Drive / Forlines House

March 1962 (Courtesy Duke Yearlook)

Dr. J. Deryl Hart House / President's House - Duke University

04.03.12 Built in 1933 and extensively renovated in 2004, the Hart House is [as of 2012] the home of Duke President Richard H. Brodhead - returning the presidential residency to campus for the first time since the 1960s. The three-floor building, constructed from brick and timber, borders the Duke football field at the corner of two main roads...

1607 Duke University Road

(Courtesy David Southern) Lizzie Burch was resident in the 1920s through at least 1933. The house contents were sold at auction in 1969, and the house was demolished soon thereafter for construction of an apartment complex (Courtesy David Southern) Miss Burch taught piano out of her home during the early 20th century. 1607 is the westernmost...

1726 Duke University Road

1700 Duke University Road

University Apartments

A little jaunt back to the West End today to cover the University Apartments, which I skipped previously simply in hopes of stumbling upon more information before writing about it. However, Lisa Sorg at the Independent published the news that the apartment complex had been purchased by Capstone Development, a Birmingham, AL-based student housing...

1620 Duke University Road

The house at 1620 Duke University Road, owned by Jan Katherine Smith and her husband, has been abandoned for at least a decade now. These are baffling situations that I still can't really grasp - I contacted the owner a few times about 6 years ago about whether she and her husband would sell the house through HPSD, and she stated that they were...