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114 N. Alston Ave.

2000 Demolished in 2011 by the Durham Rescue Mission.
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1203 Franklin St.

One-story L-shaped house with cross--gable roof and German siding. Almost full-facade shed porch has replacement metal porch posts. House was demolished in 2011 for the Durham Rescue Mission's grand expansion plans.
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1207 Franklin St.

Radically altered one-story one-room deep house with rear ell; the gable-end roof probably was a triple-A originally, like the other houses of this type built in the district; c. 1900. Fenestration has been extensively altered and the aluminum--sided house now has an engaged gable- front entrance porch on metal posts. Only the central corbelled...
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1004 North Buchanan Boulevard

Front-gabled bungalow with German siding, decorative eave brackets and exposed rafter tails, 9/1 sash windows, and an engaged porch with battered posts and a railing covered with wood shingles.
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1007 North Buchanan Boulevard

Front clipped-gable bungalow. Richard G. Thompson was occupant in 1930.
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1003 North Buchanan Boulevard

Duplex. Side-gable 1-story brick duplex.
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1001 North Buchanan Boulevard

Side-gable 1-story brick duplex with a central chimney.
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W. Duke and Sons

Washington Duke and Sons was founded in 1871 when the elder Duke moved to Durham with his sons James and Ben, joining his son Brodie. By 1884, the company had built a large Italianate Brick Factory. Washington Duke died in 1905. James B. Duke became the head of the company, which, with additional acquisitions, became the American Tobacco Company.
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Ralph B. Fuller House, 3938 Dover Road, Ca. 1928

Prominently sited two-story, side-gabled, mitered-weatherboard Colonial Revival house with centered from entry with sidelights and transom sheltered by segmental barrel-arch gabled entry portico on Doric columns. Ralph B. Fuller, and insurance agent, built this house for his family. Mena Fuller Webb, author and Durham historian, spent her early years in this house.
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2017 Pershing St.

1941? (Courtesy Caroline Tilley) 08.48 (Courtesy Caroline Tilley)
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