Private Residence

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024

Arthur W. and Dorothy A. Knight House

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Shortly after moving into the house at 2211 Arrington Street, the owner’s husband, a zoology professor at Duke, found a perfect arrowhead in the large backyard. The artifact remains prominently displayed in the study, the professor’s favorite room in the house. Perhaps the arrowhead had once belonged to the...

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024

Robert W. & Julia Toms Carr House

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Durham architect Robert Winston “Judge” Carr Sr., AIA, designed the 1953 Contemporary Ranch house at 73 Beverly Drive for his family that included wife, Julia Toms Carr, and their four children. The younger son of Amy Winston Carr and George Watts Carr Sr., Robert Carr was called “Judge” for most of his life after...

3120 Devon Road

Nicholson-Kinney House

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 It was spring 1947. Lieutenant Sterling Nicholson, Jr. was grateful to be home in Durham, reunited with his wife, and starting a family. Two years prior, he had lain dying on a battlefield in Germany, his plane brought down by enemy fire. Saved by the kind German girl who found him and the pastor and doctor who...

900 E. Ellerbee St.

The William Brinkley King, Sr., and Orpah Turrentine King House

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Surrounded by modest Minimal Traditional and Ranch Style houses of the 1940s and ‘50s, this high-style Modernist Ranch on its large lot is a bit of a surprise. It was built for Brinkley and Orpah King in 1967. The Kings founded and operated the King’s Red & White Super Market at the northeast corner of Club...

505 W. Knox Street

Lindsay L. & Mary Lou Fogleman House

Photo by Pam Lappegard circa 2024 Prominently situated above West Knox Street are three matching Ranch Style homes on deep wooded lots, all built in 1953 by and for men of Durham’s Greatest Generation. All four men graduated from Durham High School at the onset of the second World War and served their country overseas. All four returned to Durham...

514 Holloway - Paul Noell House

Looking southwest, 1964. The house at 514 Holloway St. was likely built in the 1890s, perhaps by the Ferrell family. The original lot extended farther to the south (because Liberty St. was not extended east of Dillard St. until the late 1920s) and functioned as pasture and farmland.

Walter M. & Katherine T. Nielsen House

139 Pinecrest Rd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): Following the expansion of Duke...

Walter A. Biggs House

2116 W. Club Blvd. (Photograph by Pam Lappegard for Preservation Durham) What follows is an excerpt from the booklet for the 2021 Preservation Durham Historic Home Tour ( click here to learn more and get tickets to see this and other fantastic Tudor Revival homes across town in person October 16th and 17th!): The Biggs House near Oval Park in Watts...

2111 Concord St.

December 2017, photograph by Heather Slane - hmwPreservation According to county tax records, the house at 2111 Concord was built in 1943. The following information was included in the 2019 National Register Historic District application for College Heights: Milton R. and Mary Grant House – c. 1950 Contributing Building This one-story, hip-roofed...

2110 Duncan St.

Photo taken by Melva Rigel, August 2020 2110 Duncan – John and Lillian Thomas House – c. 1945 Contributing Building Distinctive for the cast stone on the lower one-third of the façade, this one-story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and triple pile with a two-bay-wide, projecting front gabled wing on the left (south)...