04.03.12

04.03.12 Bob Wells House. Intact 1-story tri-gable house with plain weatherboard, original 2-over-2 sash windows, a Queen Arme-style front door, a rear ell, and a hipped porch with turned posts. Bob Wells bought the lot from William Gaston Vickers, built the house, and sold it back to Vickers around 1909. Vickers's son Claude Vickers lived here for...

From the gravel-y end of Ward Street, 04.03.12

04.03.12 Built in 1933 and extensively renovated in 2004, the Hart House is [as of 2012] the home of Duke President Richard H. Brodhead - returning the presidential residency to campus for the first time since the 1960s. The three-floor building, constructed from brick and timber, borders the Duke football field at the corner of two main roads...

(Courtesy Duke Archives) Like the rest of West Campus, the Indoor Stadium was designed by Julian Abele of the Hoarce Trumbauer firm in Philadelphia. Legend has it that the basic design was sketched on a matchbook by Eddie Cameron and Wallace Wade in 1935. It became the new home to the no-longer-Trinity-but-now-Duke basketball teams, far...

01.07.71 1981 (Old North Durham Architecture Slides, Durham County Library)

One-story hipped-roof Craftsman-style house with 2 interior chimneys, a large hipped dotmer window, a pair of glazed and paneled front doors, and 9/1 sash windows. The building was constructed about 1915 as the Lakewood Baptist Church. In 1924 it was sold to a private owner and rebuilt as a duplex. No evidence of its original church appearance remains on the exterior.