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1504 Fayetteville Street – Cox-McNeill House

This one-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and four-pile with a full-width, shed-roofed rear ell. County tax records date the building to 1920.5.
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1503 Fayetteville Street – Dr. J. W. V. and Pearl Cordice House

This two-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting two-story hip-roofed bay on the north elevation and a two-story, gabled rear ell on the southeast corner. The house has a painted brick foundation, vinyl siding, and nine-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows. The hip-roofed front porch is supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers and has a low gable over the entrance, which is accessed by a brick stair with brick knee walls. The porch extends across the façade and wraps around the north side of the house, abutting the projecting bay. Original wood weatherboards remain in the porch gable and wood soffits and trim remain around the hip-roofed front dormer, which has a pair of six-light casement windows. The front door is a fifteen-light French door.
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1502 Fayetteville Street – Edward D. Green House

This two-story, hip-roofed Foursquare house is two bays wide and double-pile with two one-story, gabled rear ells. The earliest known occupant is Edward D. Green (grocer)
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1501 Fayetteville Street – James B. and Annie C. Alston House

This two-story, hip-roofed house is two bays wide and double-pile with a projecting two-story gable on the right end of the façade and a projecting canted bay on the south elevation. The earliest known occupants are James B. and Annie C. Alston.
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1410 Fayetteville Street – Turner-Alston House

This one-story, triple-A-roofed house is three bays wide and single-pile with a full-width, shed-roofed rear ell. The earliest known occupant is Walter Matthews (brickman) in 1930.
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1408 Fayetteville Street – John C. Scarborough Rental House

This one-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and single-pile with a two-room, gabled rear ell on the northwest corner and a shed-roof addition beyond the ell. The earliest known occupant is John Morton in 1920; Morton appears to have run an “eating house” out of this location. County tax records confirm a 1920 construction date.
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1306 Fayetteville Street – College Inn

This one-story, front-gabled commercial building has a three-bay aluminum storefront with a door flanked by large picture windows. A grocer and blacksmith are listed at this address as early as 1925; however, the current building was likely constructed around 1935. The College Inn (confectioners and restaurant) was listed here from 1935 through 1950. It is currently the New Visions of Africa restaurant.
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1302 Fayetteville Street – James L. and Pearl Page House

This one-story, gable-front-and-wing house is three bays wide and double-pile with a gabled rear ell on the northwest corner and a hip-roofed block south of the ell. The building appears on the 1913 Sanborn map; the earliest known occupant is James L. Page in 1920. Page operated a Page’s Grocery next door at 1304 Fayetteville.
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1224 Fayetteville- William E. Waller Meat Shop

This one-story commercial structure is two-bays wide, with a gabled roof on the southern bay and a flat roof on the northern bay. The building appears on the 1913 Sanborn map. It was listed as vacant in the 1920 city directory; the Busy Bee Pressing Club and William E. Waller meats were listed at this address in 1925. It is currently the Eagle Community Food Mart.
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1223 Fayetteville Street – Earl and Ollie Baucum House

This one-story, side-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile with wide, gabled dormers on the façade and rear elevation. County tax records date the building to 1920; the earliest known occupant is Earl Baucum (carpenter) in 1925.
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