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1110 N. Elizabeth St.

Early home of brothers Garland and James Rose, of the architecture firm Rose and Rose.
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501 N. Elizabeth St.

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is three bays wide and single-pile with an engaged front porch supported by replacement square posts and accessed by an off-centered flight of stairs and ramp. (The house formerly had two sets of steps to the front porch). The earliest known residents are Lewis Turner Wilcox and Mrs. Carrie Wilcox in 1911/12. Later residents include Beatrice, Dewey, & Walter M. Browning (upholsterer) in 1915/16.
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412 N. Elizabeth St.

Built in 1912 as a single-story structure, this large house with Craftsman features was expanded and height-doubled between then and 1937. The Byrd brothers were listed living in the house in 1915.
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410 N. Elizabeth St.

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house with hip-roofed front porch shares its form with many other houses in the neighborhood. More modest than its neighbors to the south, the first known resident is Alonzo Hamlin (carrier) in 1907. The house was occupied by Hubert R. & William E. Byrd (Byrd & Bryan) in 1915/16, and Melvin G. Strickland (superintendent, Paragon Hosiery Mill) in 1919 and 1924.
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1014 Burch Ave.

(Below in italics is from the Burch Avenue District NR listing; that information not verified for accuracy by this author.) This one-story, hip-roofed house is three-bays wide and double pile with a projecting gabled bay on the right side and a shed-roofed addition across the rear. The standing-seam metal roof has a front gable centered on the...
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1102 Burch Ave.

This one-story, front-gabled duplex is four-bays wide and triple pile. Windows are one-over-one replacements and entrances have nine-light over two-panel contemporary doors. Innies Blalock was resident in 1941.
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1100 Burch Ave. - Ballard-Smith Duplex

This one-story, front-gabled duplex is four-bays wide and triple pile. The earliest known occupants are R. Harry Ballard (watch maker, Globe Jewelry Co.) with his wife Pearl S, and Roy B. (machine operator) and Doris Smith in 1940.
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1020 Burch Ave. - C.L. Morris House

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is three-bays wide and single pile with a gabled rear ell on the left side and an addition to its right. The earliest known occupant is C. L. Morris (machinist) in 1919. The house was a duplex from the mid-1920s through at least the early 1940s.
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1018 Burch Ave. - Walker-Malone Duplex

This one-story, side-gabled house is four-bays wide and triple pile with a full-width, gabled rear ell. The building does not appear on the 1937 Sanborn. Mary T. Walker and William Malone were listed at this address in 1940.
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1016 Burch Ave.- John L. Green House

This one-story, hip-roofed house is three-bays wide and double pile with a hip-roofed rear ell. The house is nearly identical in form to 1014 Burch and may have been constructed by the same person. The earliest known resident is J. L. Green (laborer) in 1919; Green remained in the house through the early 1930s. In the 1930s and 1940s the house was listed as a duplex
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