People & Places

Crisp, Tyson E

Reverse side : Two Durham P.S.Co. Tokens circa 1921 were found packed away. While researching, I noted their absence on your site and decided to share with others. Milledgeville, GA

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Two Durham P.S.Co. Tokens circa 1921 were found packed away. While researching, I noted their absence on your site and decided to share with others. Milledgeville, GA

Wright, Richard H

Franklin County, North Carolina

Durham, North Carolina

Ellington-Pendergraph House

From the 2003 National Register listing: One-story tri-gable house that has undergone much alteration, including the removal of the chimneys, asphalt siding, a replacement small hipped-roof entrance porch, and the covering of the facade gable with plywood siding. C. M. Pendergraph, worker at Lasater Roofing Co., occupant in 1925; Henry I...

Watkins-Stansbury House

1999 (DC tax photo) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Classic Type A bungalow sheathed in split shakes, constructed early 1910s. Engaged porch carried by stocky box posts on shingled piers. Six-over-one windows light the first floor and the house retains original fourteen-light...

Cauthen House

1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library) (Below in italics is from the 1985 North Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A large one and one half story bungalow with side facing gabled roof continuing unbroken over porch in classic bungalow fashion. Centrally located shed roof dormer...

Faucette-Proctor House

1981 113 West Seeman Street, 03.28.11

NC Mutual Building (411 West Chapel Hill Street)

The block bounded by West Chapel Hill Street, Willard Street, Duke Street, and Jackson Street was the location of two different houses of Benjamin N. Duke, brother of James B. Duke and Brodie L. Duke, followed by a modern office tower for the Durham-based North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company. In the 1880s, Ben Duke constructed 'The Terrace' on...

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...

Henderson-Ellis House

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1-story front-gabled Craftsman-style house with German siding, 4-over-1 vertical sash windows, exposed rafter tails, and a 2-bay gabled porch with classical columns and a wood railing. 1937 SM. 1955 CD: Thurman Ellis owner/occupant....