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2116 E. Main St.

Below in italics is from the 2004 NRHP East Durham documents - not verified for accuracy by this author. Myrtice Driver House. 1-story gable-and-wing type house with a front cross-gable and a full Craftsman porch. Alterations include all-over vinyl siding and replacement sash windows. The porch posts may be Craftsman replacements for the original...
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2114 E. Main St

Below in italics is from the 2004 NRHP East Durham documents - not verified for accuracy by this author. 1-story side-gable house with Queen Anne-style finish, including decorative shingled gables and 6-over-9 sash windows. About 1950 this was remodeled as a duplex, with a brick-veneered facade with corner quoins and a dentil cornice. The 2 front...
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2110 E Main St

Below in italics is from the 2004 NRHP East Durham documents - not verified for accuracy by this author. Paul Ligon House, 1-story side-gable house with 6-over-6 sash windows, all-over vinyl siding, and a gabled entrance porch with metal posts. Not on 1937 SM. 1950 CD: Paul Ligon owner/occupant (tobacco worker, Liggett & Myers).
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1222 Broad Street - Watts Hospital Staff Home

Watts Hospital Staff Home. Large 2-story Colonial Revival-style house converted into a quadraplex apartment building. The hipped roof features paired hip roof dormers. 1-over-1 sash windows and German siding remain intact. The front porch is now enclosed, and original steps and entrance removed. Metal stairs and balconies added for the apartments...
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802-4 Berkeley St.

Nice apartment building. There is history here but I don't know it.
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811 Jackson St.

Summer 1993 (Photo by G. Kueber) Intact one-story one-room deep frame house with triple-A roofline and rear ell and center hall plan. Slightly tapered box posts support the hip-roofed porch across most of the facade. Early twentieth century. I lived in this house that Ida Simpson de-intacted by converting it to a duplex back in 1993 - I believe my...
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Holder-Cousins House

Summer 1993 (Photo by G. Kueber) (Below in italics from the TP NR nomination) Frame two-story, L-shaped house; central chimney, cross gable roof with pedimented gables and full-facade porch on plain box piers. Built late 1910s and first occupied by R.L. Holder, clerk with The Durham & Southern Railway Co.; he was succeeded here in the early 1930s...
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510 Watts St.

02.10.11 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1950s as the Salmon Apartments. A two-story brick building with boxed cornices and a recessed entry flanked by pilasters.
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506 Watts St.

1999 - (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built c. 1910 for the owner of Al's Pharmacy (current site of Goodwill Industries on W. Main st.) This house was later the home of W.L. Cole, superintendent of Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co. This narrow Foursquare has a...
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509 Watts St.

1999 (DC tax office) One-story gable-roofed brick dwelling with recessed corner porch containing box posts.
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