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817 Burch Ave.

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled house is three-bays wide and single pile with a gabled rear ell on the right side and a modern shed-roofed rear addition. The earliest known occupant is R. T. Hornbuckle in 1907.
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DePasquale, Frank

Date of death
12.09.2010
Place of death
Durham, NC
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812 Burch Ave. - Thomas E. Rigsbee House

This one-story, gable-and-wing Queen Anne house is three-bays wide and double pile with a gabled ell extending from the right rear of the house and a second gable extending the front facing gable to the rear. The house retains much of its original fabric including wood weatherboards and molding, imbricated shingles and a decorative vent in the front gable. The earliest known resident is Thomas E. Rigsbee (farmer) in 1905 and remained in the house through at least 1920.
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810 Burch Ave. - Leigh House

This typical one-story, triple-A-roofed house is four-bays wide and single pile with a gabled rear ell. A second entrance from the front porch indicates that the building may have been used as a duplex for some period, though city directories cannot confirm when this may have occurred. The earliest known residents are the Leigh family (Miss Birdie, J. Claudius, and Miss Nannie B.) in 1905.
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Waddell, John A.

Date of birth
1826
Date of death
01.12.1883
Place of birth
Prince Edward County, VA
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Lawrence, Telphor Hinton

Date of birth
11.03.1889
Date of death
08.06.1936
Place of death
Durham, NC
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Kane, George W.

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Northup and O'Brien

Northup and O'Brien, a Winston-Salem firm that encompassed architects Willard Close Northup, Leet O'Brien, and after 1927, Luther Lashmit, was one of the most prolific and distinguished architectural firms in North Carolina during the first half of the 20th century. The firm offered a full range of architectural possibilities for the urbanizing...
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Wilkinson, Thomas Wray

Date of birth
1913
Date of death
2002
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1954 newspaper ad for R. R. Markley, architect.

Markley, Robert Redding

Date of birth
12.22.1886
Date of death
07.05.1959
Place of birth
Manchester, MD
Place of death
Durham, NC
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