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201 S. Roxboro St.

201 Pine Street - late 1940s. The Ray S. Coley service station was built in 1936-37 on a small chunk of land adjacent to the Venable Tobacco Company warehouse, created by the realignment of Pine Street in the 1920s to meet S. Roxboro (north of the tracks,) rather than meet East Pettigrew at a perpendicular. (The Venable Warehouse follows the...
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807 Cleveland St.

A late nineteenth-century construction date for this one story frame house with two long rear ells is revealed in the segmental arched transom at the front door, the pointed arched lintels at the entrance and all side windows, and the corbelled chimney stacks. Probably in the 1920s the house was given a bungalow "look" with a new front plane of the...
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803 Cleveland St. - Lawrence House

11.01.10 E. H. Lawrence, owner of the wholesale feed business, E. H. Lawrence &Company, had this one-story cottage con- structed around 1905 and lived here until the early 1920s. A variety ofdecorative details typical of its Queen Anne style survives, including imbrecated shingles in the gables, dentilling in the frieze of the polygonal porch which...
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813 Cleveland St.

References in the 1891 deed of trust between Samuel Linton Leary and Mr. H. J. Webb for the Leary-Colletta House next door indicate that 813 Cleveland Street at that time was owned and occupied by S. T. Holloway, who probably had it built in the 1880s. The two- story, one-room-deep main block of the house with a triple-A roofline is enlarged with a two-story hip-roofed wing across the rear and two one-story gable-roofed rear ells. J. W. Hutchins succeeded Holloway here around the turn of the century. Hutchins was a butcher at the City Market until the late 1910s when he became vice president of City Ice and Coal; he died in the early 1920s.
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Us Army Reserve Building

04.03.12
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901 Cleveland St.

When this house was built at the turn of the century, the south end was one-and-one-half stories and the north end, with the projecting facade, was a single story; sometime after 1913 a full second story was added, converting the house to its present form. The house was built in the first decade of this century. City directories reveal that it had a series of occupants from the late 1910s to at least the early 1930s, indicating that it may have been rental property, its status today, at an early date.
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823 Cleveland St.

This symmetrical one-story hip-roofed house appears to retain all of its original exterior features. Decorative boards in alternating notched and sawtooth patterns adorn the large attic gables above the front and side elevations. Sawtoothing runs at the base of the entablature, between the intricate sawn foliate spandrels at the simple, turned porch posts. The earliest known occupant of the house was grocer W. H. Hicks who lived here from around 1910 until the late 1920s.
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810 Cleveland St.

This two-story, T-shaped frame house with a rear one-story ell has returns, patterned shingles and a lunette vent with a "keystone" in each of the attic gables. Much of the wraparound porch has been enclosed; three of the original box posts remain. Dating from early in this century, the house was occupied for many years by Mrs. Cora D. Morris beginning in the 1910s.
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309 Mallard Ave.

July 2006 This two-story, two-bay house with a high, hipped roof has a shed-roofed dormer on the front of the house with a window that has been sided over. There is a two-story gabled wing with full gable return at the right rear of the house facing N. Queen Street. A shorter, two-story rear gable extends from the left side of the house with a one...
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604 W. Chapel Hill St.

Built in 1940, 604 West Chapel Hill housed physician offices, much like the earlier-constructed Eloise next door.
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