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913 Orient St.

09.03.18 (N. Levy) According to a 1984 National Historic District application, this is one of the Pearl Cotton Mill Village's four "one-story bungalows built by the mill around 1924. These rectangular, single-family 'builder's houses' are three rooms deep with a low hipped roof, recessed full-facade porch, and three-bay main facade." Its porch had...
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907 Orient St.

08.30.18 (N. Levy) Like much of the surrounding Pearl Cotton Mill Village, this two-story house was built as a duplex for factory workers and their families around 1905. Sold along with the other mill-owned houses in the area in 1945 or 1946, it was still rented as a duplex when recorded as "largely unaltered" in a 1984 National Historic District...
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1101 Iredell St - Benjamin Perry House

The Benjamin Perry House is a 1927 brick bungalow.
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J. Gerald & Macie Williams Pleasants House

This home has applied for and received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information derives from the plaque application. This is home is a 1.5 -story side-gable Colonial Revival-style house of clinker brick, with a recessed door with a wide pedimented surround, 8-over-8 and 6-over-6 sash windows, and 3 gabled dormers...
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909 Alma Street

Built around 1945.
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601 North Alston Avenue

2000 Ecclesia House of Prayer
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309 Amber Place

2000
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219 South Alston

2000
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209 South Alston

2000
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116 South Alston

2000
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