The house at 508 (previously 408) Fayetteville St. was likely built in the 1890s. Its origins are unclear, but my pure speculation is that it may have been built as a parsonage for White Rock Baptist. Addresses become very difficult to trace prior to ~1905, but by 1907, it was the home of the James E. Shepard family. Shepard was born in Raleigh in...