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717 Shepherd St.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Intact narrow one-story, one-room-deep turn of-the-century frame house with low gable roof and rear ell. Plain posts and a match stick railing at the porch and narrow four-over-four windows with pointed arched lintels characterize the house. 1928...
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715 Shepherd St.

1999 (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Intact one-story, one-room-deep frame house with triple-A roof and long rear ell. Distinguished by pressed tin shingles on roof, ornate sawn and turned bargeboard outlining the front gable, and a porch with turned posts, scallopped spandrels...
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713 Shepherd St.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A one-story T-shaped frame house dating from the 1900s that retains its original pressed tin roof shingles, Hip- roofed porch across most of the facade has slightly tapered box posts and a match stick railing. 1928 resident: SP Arrington
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709 Shepherd St.

2006 (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) J. Fred Christian, son of J. T. Christian who built 704 Shepherd St., constructed this one-story frame house in the 1900s. Originally irregularly shaped, house was altered to its present regular two-room-deep configuration with a gambrel roof...
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707 Shepherd St.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story L-shaped frame house with porch following contour of main facade. Replacement porch posts. 1928 resident: BR Crabtree
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705 Shepherd St.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story 1-shaped frame house with front wing ending in three-sided bay. Full-facade porch supports of tapered box posts on stone plinths may be replacements. House has been covered with aluminum siding. Travelling salesman Leander Parrish lived...
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703 Shepherd St.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story gable-front frame bungalow with attached full-facade hip-roofed porch. Weatherboards on all elevations except for shingles in front gable, Characteristic triangle brackets in gable eaves and tapered posts on brick plinths supporting porch...
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512 Gordon St.

512 Gordon, Feb. 1982 Torn down in 1997 after my (insufferable and somewhat unhinged) neighbor complained a lot to Community Development.
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508 Gordon St.

February 1982 February 1982 An interesting variation on the Triple A cottage with rear wing / porch that likely housed at least one another apartment. Sometime between 1982 and 1995, the house was majorly remuddled, and divorced from its previous character - probably by the same person who did a similar re-work to 513 Jackson. From 1997-2012, it...
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513 Jackson St.

Feb. 1982 Prior to ~1968, South Gregson Street "T" ed into Jackson Street, and there was no southward extension - i.e., this house did not sit on a corner. That changed during the construction of the Durham Freeway, when the curvy bridge connected Gregson with Vickers was added (Durham has many instances where a major E-W or N-S artery stopped...
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