People & Places

This one-story, gable-and-wing house is three-bays wide and double pile with a modern shedroofed addition wrapping the rear ell. The earliest known occupants are John (carpenter) and Eva Squires in 1911.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author. 1920s Type A bungalow retains original shingled exterior, low hipped-roof dormer, four-over-one windows, tapered box posts with molded caps set on brick piers, an interior-end chimney, and a multipaned entry door. .

This two-story, hip-roofed Foursquare house is three bays wide and triple-pile. County tax records date the building to 1923; the earliest known occupant is Reverend S. L. McDowell in 1925; it is currently two or three units.

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): The house was built in 1948 for Willard C. and Maude Ford. Willard Ford operated the Ford Metal Molding Company, a successful metal fabrication business with offices in Manhattan and a plant in New Jersey...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): Among the very first homes built and sold in Glendale Heights was 616 Colgate Street. Built in 1946, the house embodies the Minimal Traditional style described in the 1940 Federal Housing Administration’s...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): After growing up on Hermitage Court in Forest Hills, Charles R. Skinner Jr. bought land not far away on Sycamore Street to build his house. The timing was fortuitous, Skinner, who went by “Chas,” bought...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): During the years of the Great Depression, new home construction stopped. The only thing happening to capture national attention and shape popular architectural taste was the work at Colonial Williamsburg...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): The lovely Colonial Revival house at the center of the Hillandale Commons development was not, despite its surroundings, ever intended to be a suburban house. It was instead designed and built to be the...

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Charlie Hackney House. 2-story side-gable I-House with much alteration, including all-over vinyl, replacement sash windows, a 1-story hipped porch with vinyl-covered columns, and an upstairs front addition and porch balcony addition...