People & Places

Rufus H. Powell, Jr. and Elizabeth Reade Powell House

01.02.08 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The squat, panelled elephantine box pylons carrying the shallow arch of the full-facade engaged porch lend distinction to this otherwise typical Type A frame bungalow. The house was built c. 1920 by Durham contractor...

1103 Ninth Street -- From Preservation Durham Home Tour "Then & Now"

Ivory T. and Annie B. Smith House

Deed records indicate that J.B.Warren built this house around 1905. It was one of a row of simple gable-and-wing Victorian transitional houses Warren built along Ninth Street at the turn of the last century. The area on the west side of Durham was booming with new growth stimulated by the creation and rapid expansion of Benjamin Duke’s Erwin Cotton...

C. H. and Eliza Stone House

Harvey Stone House, 1940 Harvey Stone House, 1980 The Harvey Stone house is particularly intriguing for its chronologic incongruity with its neighbors - although it is now part of a full block, it sat slightly apart from the concentration of housing development along Watts and Guess Road during the first decade of the 20th century. Stone was a contractor and house mover.

Seth W. & Arlene T. Myatt House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Type B bungalow constructed 1926 with multiple, sometimes overlapping gables, notched brackets, and large tapered box posts on brick plinths. Seth Woodall Myatt had the house constructed within a year after J.B. Duke asked him to move from Canada...

Page-Childs House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Type A bungalow distinguished by enormous tapered brick piers supporting very shallow pointed arched frieze of the engaged full-facade porch. The earliest known occupant was Walter E. Page, owner of Page Motor Co., in the early 1920s; Duke University...

Dennis-Tew House

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Benjamin Parrish House. 1-story Minimal Traditional-style house with vinyl siding, 6-over-6 sash windows, and a gabled 1-bay entrance porch with metal posts.1940 CD. 1945 CD: Benj. C. Parrish owner/occupant (driver, Scott & Roberts...

Garrett-Walker House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Plain one-story post-1940 frame cottage.

Williams-Harward House

11.13.2009 (Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A combination of neoclassical and gothic motifs decorate this stucco-on-frame cross gable- roofed cottage constructed between 1925 and 1930 for Claude B. Willams, secretary-treasurer of the Austin-Heaton Company...

Dr. George T. and Lettie May Watkins House

1999 (Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-and-one-half-story bungalow with pedimented front and shed-roofed dormer on the west (side) elevation. Distinctive exterior features include sheathing of alternating rows of tall and short split shake shingles, and...

Watkins-Graham House

08.28.11 Harry F. Watkins House. 2-story, side gabled Colonial Revival house with interior chimneys, 6-over-6 sash windows, double French doors, and a side porch with massive entablature and two huge plain columns. The front entry is a bracketed pergola over a French door. The house has plain siding and appears to have been converted to apartments.