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1105 Watts St.

10.26.2009 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Tobacco buyer and warehouseman W. Fleming Lyon had this house constructed as his residence around 1905. The relatively large Neo-colonial house is simple in design, with its characteristic early 20th-century decoration...
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Beavers-Huckabee House

03.22.2012 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Classic two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival style frame house built 1920s. One-story wing consisting of a porte-cochere and sunporch flank the gable-roofed main block. A portico upheld by thin Tuscan columns shelters...
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Robert Junius and Ruth Jones Kernodle House

11.17.2006 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Type A bungalow built circa 1910; shed-roofed dormer. has three windows with latticed muntins in the upper sashes. A shallow one-story dining room extension is located on the south side. Less-than-full-facade porch...
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1114 Watts St. - Markham Farmhouse

11.29.2006 (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This one-story T-shaped frame structure is said to have been built in the late 19th century as a farmhouse on the extensive Markham farm that formerly occupied this area of Trinity Park. The house retains its original turned porch...
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Shipp-Cahow House

11.17.2006 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This late 1930s two-story brick Period House features a cross gable roof, multi-paned windows, a double-shouldered and stone-trimmed exterior end chimney and an entry beneath a small fanlight transom. Other features...
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1104 Watts St.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Contractor Connie H. Shipp built this house for his family in the 1910s; his daughter continued to live in it into at least the 1980s. As a mason, Shipp worked on many of Durham's important structures including Trinity Park's Watts St. Baptist Church...
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1010 Watts St. - CJCLDS / Beth-El

02.16.2011 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built after World War II for the Morman congregation, this plain gabled brick L- plan sanctuary has a three-stage tower on the main gable. The church building was sold to the adjacent Beth-El Synagogue in 1986; the...
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Philo M. Bussell House

05.24.2007 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1920s for Philo Bussell, vice president of Durham Industrial Bank . With a brick facade laid in Flemish bond, this Foursquare is enriched by its hipped roof extending to form wide boxed eaves containing paired...
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Upchurch-Yates House

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This 1920s two-story brick Period House has a gambrel· front roof extended by large shed-roofed dormers. The front elevation holds a round-arched attic window, paired nine-over-one windows at the second story and a full-facade...
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813 Watts St.

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story 1940s German-sided oottage, its narrow end set to the street; fronted by a one-bay porch.
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