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511 Dupree Street – Frank Jones House

This two-story, hip-roofed duplex is four bays wide and triple-pile. The earliest known occupant is Frank Jones (cement finisher) in 1930.
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509 Dupree Street – Harvey Vincent House

This one-story, gable-front-and-wing house is three bays wide and double-pile with a shed-roofed block at the northeast corner. The earliest known occupant is Harvey Vincent (cement finisher) in 1930.
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507 Dupree Street – Robert Womack House

This one-story, front-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and double-pile. The house has no visible original fabric remaining. It has a stuccoed foundation, vinyl siding and windows, and two interior brick chimneys. The engaged front porch is supported by replacement, unpainted wood posts with an unpainted railing. An unpainted deck is at the...
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505 Dupree Street – Miles Mccoy House

This two-story, gable-front-and-wing house is three bays wide and double-pile. County tax records date the building to 1930; the earliest known occupant is Miles McCoy (grocer) in 1935.
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408 Dunstan Ave. – Edward L. Davis House

This one-story, front-gabled Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and four-pile with a side-gabled wing that projects slightly from the west elevation, flush with the façade. The earliest known occupant is Edward L. Davis (orderly) in 1940; county tax records confirm a construction date of 1940.
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404 Dunstan Ave. – Verbal-Coltrane House

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and double-pile. County tax records date the building to 1939; the earliest known occupant is Sidney Verbal (Wonderland Barber Shop) in 1940. By 1945, Frank Coltrane was the occupant. Residents changed frequently and neighbor Ralph Judd remembers the house being a rooming house for NCCU students, indicating that it may have been a rental property.
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409 Dunstan Ave. – Kyles Temple Ame Zion Church

This large, front-gabled church has a square tower at the front east corner, and a one-story, shed-roofed ell across the rear. The church is of brick construction with a brick water table and an exterior chimney at the west rear. One cornerstone states the Church was organized in 1929; it was offshoot of nearby St. Mark’s A.M.E. Church and was named for Bishop Linwood Westinghouse Kyles, the presiding prelate of the Central North Carolina A.M.E Church Conference, who organized the church in 1929. A second cornerstone indicates a 1930 construction date.
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411 Dunstan Ave. – Clyde S. Brown House

This one-story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional house is three bays wide and double-pile with a gabled rear ell on the northwest corner and a shed-roofed rear porch to its east. The earliest known occupant is Clyde S. Brown (tobacco worker) in 1940; county tax records confirm a construction date of 1940.
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410 Dunstan Ave. – Clifton Weems House

This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled Period Cottage is four bays wide and double-pile with a front gable on the right end of the façade and a shed-roofed rear ell at the southeast corner. The earliest known occupant is Clifton Weems (laborer) in 1950; county tax records confirm a construction date of 1950.
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406 Dunstan Ave. – Simon David House

This one-story, front-gabled house is three bays wide and triple-pile. The building appears on the 1937 Sanborn map; the earliest known occupant is Simon David (bricklayer) in 1940.
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