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604 Primitive St.

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is four bays wide and single-pile with a stuccoed brick foundation, vinyl siding and soffits, and an asphalt-shingled roof. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map. Early residents of the modest house were Ira F. Cates and Melvin Peed (clerk) in 1915, O. B. Tenney (electrician) in 1919, and Mrs. Emma Branch (widow and laundress) in 1924 and 1929.
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603 Primitive St.

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is typical in form and architectural detail. The earliest occupants of the house include William Bowles (carpenter) in 1907, Bunnie J. (laborer), Carrie Blaylock, and William (policeman) and Lula Moore in 1911. Residents changed frequently, indicating that the house may have been constructed as rental housing.
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602 Primitive St.

The Joseph Shipp House is a typical one-story, triple-A-roofed house, three bays wide and single pile.The earliest known resident is Joseph Shipp (bookkeeper, Edgar E. Thompson) in 1907. Shipp is listed as a police officer from 1915 to 1919 and a timekeeper for the City Water Department in 1929. He remained in the house through 1939.
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837 Wilkerson Ave

This two-story, triple-A-roofed house is three-bays wide and single pile with a one-story gabled rear ell on the right side. The earliest known occupants of the house are Miss Ada R. Smith, Ernest R. Smith (clerk), and John E. Smith (carpenter) in 1905.
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835 Wilkerson Ave

This one-story duplex of modern construction is four bays wide and four-pile.
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833 Wilkerson Ave

This community garden is located on a relatively flat parcel of land. The lot is currently owned by the North Carolina Community Land Trustees, Inc., who purchased it from Duke University in 1993.
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832 Wilkerson Ave

This one-story house has a high, hipped roof with a projecting gable on the left front and a gabled rear ell on the left side. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map; the earliest known occupant is C. W. King (engineer) in 1919.
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831 Wilkerson Ave

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional brick house is three-bays wide and double pile. Online tax records date the house to 1953.
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830 Wilkerson Ave

This one-story, side-gabled house is three-bays wide and single pile with two gabled rear ells and a shed-roofed addition behind the right-side ell. The earliest known occupants are Jesse Kennedy (machinist) and Charles T. Fitzgerald (brick manufacturer) in 1905.
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829 Wilkerson Ave

This one-story hip-roofed bungalow is three-bays wide and triple pile. The earliest known occupant of the house is Thomas L. Ward (City Transfer Company) in 1925.
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