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Kempner, Walter

Rice Diet

From the Rice Diet webpage, accessed 8/2013: In 1934 as a doctor at Duke Hospital, Dr. Walter Kempner starting treating patients with malignant hypertension (very high blood pressure) and kidney disease with what he called "The Rice Diet" when there was no other treatment available anywhere. He gave it the name as patients usually ate a bowl of...

208 Albemarle St.

08.23.13 (G. Kueber)

201 Albemarle St.

01.12.12 (DC tax office) From the TP NR nomination: Reported by a fonner resident of 205 Albemarle (formerly Jones St.) to be the Tinzen family home, this plain but handsome Neo-Colonial house, built c. 1910, exhibits characteristics of two stories with a cross-gabled roof and side hall plan. Decoration of the frame house is restricted to box...

205 Albemarle Street

01.17.12 From the TP NR nomination: W.T. Purvis, who lived at 1003 Lamond Ave., had this Foursquare constructed in the 1920s for rental property. Modest Colonial Revival detailing on the two-story frame structure is restricted to the Palladian windcm arrangement in the gabled attic dormer. 08.23.13 (G. Kueber) This house has been bizarrely...

1001 Lamond Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination) A two-story frame upstairs/downstairs duplex identical to duplex at 1011 Dacian Avenue. Built late 1920s by W.T. Purvis who lived next door at 1003 Lamond.

1003 Lamond Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination) Two-story frame Neo-Colonial house with sawn brackets in all of the eaves and a carved sunburst fanlight above the front door. Constructed by a member of the Powell family early in the 20th century. W.T. Purvis, manager of the Credit and Collection Department of the Virginia-carolina Chemical...

1005 Lamond Ave.

03.09.11 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination:) Foreman for the Duke Branch of the American Tobacco Company, Robert H. Hinton moved into this two- story Neo-Colonial house in 1906. A pyramidal roof is crossed by gables which project to the front and sides; both bays hold typical Queen Anne cut- away corners and eave brackets. The full-facade...

1000 Lamond Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination:) This building lot was sold to the Rev. William B. North by Duke Land and Improvement Co. in 1904 for $750. The Rev. North, .the District Superintendent of the Methodist Church in North Carolina had the house constructed in 1907. Characteristic of its Neo- Colonial style is the combination of...

1002 Lamond Ave.

01.17.12 (DC tax office) (From the TP NR nomination) This 1900s two-story frame house reportedly was built for physician Edward A. Speed and his sisters. Dr. Speed married and moved out of the house, but after his death in 1911 his widow occupied the house for several decades. Asyrrmetrical massing typical of the Neo-colonial style. Converted to...