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Dr. Carl and Louise Wyatt Norris House

10.20.09 (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Dr. Carl Norris, a dentist, had this two-story frame Neo-colonial house constructed around 1912. The one-story wraparound porch supported by box pylons on brick plinths substantially augments the main block of the house. The boxy form...
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1107 Minerva Ave.

11.27.07 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two-story c. 1910 frame house, altered by enclosure of original attached full~facade shed-roofed porch with pedimented gable. Triangular brackets and exposed rafters support the eaves. This appears to have been un...
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208 N. Buchanan Blvd.

~1940 (Courtesy Dana Few Pope) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Durham historian, history professor and librarian W.K. Boyd was the original owner of the circa 1912 Colonial Revival style house. Each plane of the hipped roof carries gabled dormers; the two-story main block is...
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Boyd, William Kenneth

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311 Watts St.

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the 1920s for William Rand, manager of Durham's Coca-Cola Company, this two-story brick house is a fine exarrple of pattern book Colonial Revival styling popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The side-gable slate roofline...
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Rand, William Kenan

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307 Watts

01.17.12
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312 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. 1925 for Dorian Harris, real estate and insurance agent, this Type A bungalow displays the unusual feature of a slightly convex roofline on the main facade engaging the full-facade porch on solid prick piers. The...
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Clements-Watkins House

02.26.10 (DC Tax Office) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The firm of Rose and Rose, Architects, designed this two-story, three-room-deep brick house in the early 1920s for Buck Clements, owner of a local insurance agency. In the early 1930s, Dr. and Mrs. George Watkins...
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304-308 Watts St.

01.07.11 (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 apartment building features paired two-level flat-roofed porticos which provide porches for the four units. A corbelled chimney is centered on the hip roof; six-over-six shuttered windows...
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