03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been Jack E. Sessoms from at least 1948-1955...

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been Isadore C. Croft and wife Mary M. Croft...

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Part of the rapid development of this eastern edge of Trinity Park near South Ellerbe Creek in the years immediately after World War II, the first owner and occupant of this house appears to have been a postal carrier - Joseph W...

03.08.2000 - Photo by survey volunteers for Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) Though Durham County tax records date this house to 1948, it appears this last structure on the south side of Knox Street closest to South Ellerbe Creek was not built until the early or mid-1950s. Left - fragment Durham County Register of...

2019 (Marie Austin Realty) 2019 (Marie Austin Realty)

Looking west c.1880s, 408 Carr in the foreground just left and across the street from the back of Reams Warehouse. In the 1897 city directory, when maps indicate this house was numbered 204, the residents were listed as Mr. J. J. and Mrs. Ella R. Lumbley. (Sanborn Map Company, May 1898, Fragment of Sheet 7, available online at Library of Congress)...

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(January 2018, Photo by Heather Slane, hmwPreservation) From the National Register Historic District description: This one-story, L-shaped Contemporary style house has a low-sloped gabled roof covered with tar and gravel, large purlins in the gables, and stacked metal awning windows. A side-gabled section on the right (southeast) is three bays wide...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): After growing up on Hermitage Court in Forest Hills, Charles R. Skinner Jr. bought land not far away on Sycamore Street to build his house. The timing was fortuitous, Skinner, who went by “Chas,” bought...

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): During the years of the Great Depression, new home construction stopped. The only thing happening to capture national attention and shape popular architectural taste was the work at Colonial Williamsburg...