Photograph taken in 2016 for Preservation Durham home tour brochure. Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. The description in italics below was written for the same 2016 tour...

131 Pinecrest Rd. Architect: Robert Redding Markley Original owner: Dr. Lucius Aurelius Bigelow Built: 1935

Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 11.01.2002. According to county property records, the newer house currently at this address was built in 2016. It appears this house was demolished between 2014-2016. 12002 11012002

The history of South Alston Avenue deserves more attention than it has gotten to date; even this site seems to have looked past it about as quickly as the cars fly on NC-55. Though a north-south road through this area has deep roots and this section looks like it was incorporated into town limits by at least 1907, the east side of Alston around...

719 Bolton Street prior to demolition in summer 2022 (N. Levy). Triple-A roofed house, seemingly outlined on Sanborn Maps by 1913, but dated in County records to 1925. In the summer of 1945, Odell and Polly E. King purchased the home from their employer, Erwin Cotton Mills Company, which was liquidating its vast stock of worker housing across the...

Undated photo (c.1980s?) found prior to demolition. Triple-A roofed house, likely the latest of this group to be built or moved to this location, dated in County records to 1930. This home is on the site of the former West Durham Presbyterian Church, which became Blacknall Memorial and moved to a new facility on Perry Street in the mid-1920s. In...

Looking southwest at 1217 N. Hyde Park Ave., 08.24.2021 (N. Levy). County property records date this bungalow to 1935, but it seems possible it was built a few years prior. The first residents appear here in the 1929 city directory, the same year that Marion and Alzada Daniels - an African American carpenter and his wife who lived next door at 1215...

406 West Knox, 08.06.2020 (N. Levy). According to property records, this home was constructed in 1940.

12.06.2017 (Durham County Tax Administration) Built in the late 1920s after the subdivision of land owned by heirs of J. W. Smith, this bungalow was home to the family of William and Martha Renn for much of its first decade. In the 1950s and 60s, this was the residence of Daisy Wrenn. Apparently no relation to the previous residents with a similar...

Looking east at the front of 738 Rutherford St, 6.22.2022 (N. Levy) T-shaped house, dated in County records to 1909. At the corner with Hillsborough Road, this home had been occupied by the family of Theodore and Hosia Lewis Carden for a few years before the big selloff of Erwin Mills company housing in 1945. Unique among the surrounding mill...