Hamlin Road

Catsburg Store, 04.07.87 (Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)

Barbara and Allan Powell earned the 1986 architectural conservation award from the Historic Preservation Society of Durham for their rehabilitation of the unusual two-story Craftsman- style dwelling built by Odie and Sally Umstead in 1926. The house was badly deteriorated when the Powells purchased it in 1983 along with 50 acres of the original 350...

The owner of this one-story gable-front frame building believes that it was a school for African- American children in the 1920s. The building is very similar in appearance to the Russell School, and is likely one of the eighteen Rosenwald schools constructed in Durham County before 1930. The exterior is very well preserved, with plain weatherboard...

Late Victorian and Craftsman-style features are featured here on the popular one-story, one- room-deep house form. When James and Ida Rhew built their three-bay, tri-gable house in the early twentieth century, they embellished it with simple Victorian decoration. Clipped corners at either end of the house are ornamented by a single oval window, and...