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710 Arnette Ave.

From the 2003 National Register listing: Small Minimal Traditional-style 1-story side-gable house with an interior chimney, plain siding, 6-over-6 sash windows, an entrance with a pilastered surround, and a corner recessed porch. W. Roy Griffin, operator at L&M Tobacco Co., tenant in 1950.
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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...
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Lewter House - 810 Vickers Ave.

From the 1984 National Register listing: The pointed-arched window surrounds, overall tall proportions, cutwork attic vents and three-sided bay reflect the turn-of-the-century construction date of this house. Built by Robert U. Lewter, a policeman and later a grocer. The Lewters were succeeded by a Mrs. Mumford in the 1940s and then by Ethel Harris...
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804 Vickers Ave.

From the 1984 National Register listing: Part of the same speculative venture that yielded the Underwood House next door, this house, originally identical to its counterpart in composition, has been altered with aluminum siding. Fortunately it retains a leaded transom of beveled glass in a foliate design above the entrance.
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907 W. Proctor St.

From the 1984 National Register listing: One-story, irregularly-shaped frame house, the first house in the block, built at the turn of the century. Cross-gable roofline with diamond-shaped vents in the gables. Box posts on brick plinths support a full-facade porch. The end of the house west of the front gable was added after 1913.
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805 Jackson St.

From the 1984 National Register listing: Early twentieth-century one-story T-shaped frame house with almost full-facade shed-roofed porch supported by slightly tapered box posts with distinctive molding at the tops. Sheathed in German siding.
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Neal House - 617 Arnette Ave.

From the 1984 National Register listing: Distinctive one-and-one-half-story Queen Anne style cottage built between 1905 and 1910 by John W. Neal, weight master for the Durham Traction Co. In 1935, Neal's widow sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. O'Briant, her daughter and son-in-law. The house has a side gable roof with a subsidiary front gable...
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615 Arnette Ave.

From the 1984 National Register listing: Plain one-story, T-shaped frame house with remodelled engaged shed-roofed porch.
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610 Arnette Ave.

From the 1984 National Register listing: One-story L-shaped, turn-of-the-century frame house with original turned porch posts and match stick railing. Recently renovated.
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608 Arnette Ave.

From the 1984 National Register listing: This one-story T-shaped frame house dating from the turn-of-the-century recently was restored and embellished with the addition of a three-sided bay to the front wing. The house retains it original pressed tin roof shingles and turned porch posts with spandrels.
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