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Photograph by Pam Lappegard circa 2025 (From the Preservation Durham 2025 Home Tour Program) Built in 1932 for professor of languages Brady Jordan and his wife, Muriel, the Jordan’s home was among the first in “Duke Forest,” a subdivision created for the faculty of the new Duke University. In 1924, James Buchanan Duke, perhaps with a growing sense...

Tinnin-Davis House, 1921 Ernest Tinnin was a mill hand at Erwin Cotton Mill and worked in the weave room at Mill No. 4 after it opened in 1925. When the house was built, it had wood siding and the front door faced C Street (now called Knox St). Ten years later, they sold the property to the Davises and moved to 911 Carolina, presumably to save...