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1023 Dacian Ave.

06.14.60 Scovill Wannamaker noted in 1935 City Directory as first resident. 1986 NR nomination: One-and-one-half story Period House distinguished by gabled dormer containing Palladian window. Recessed full-facade porch has replacement foliate metal supports. Circa 1930.
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815 Burch Ave.

10.09.59 This one-and-a-half story, side-gabled bungalow is three-bays wide and double pile with a full-width engaged front porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers. The house has an asphalt-shingled roof with low, shed-roofed front dormer, both with exposed eaves. It retains original molded wood weatherboards and eight-over-one wood...
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105 N. Hyde Park Ave.

Charles Gregory House. 1 1/2-story side-gable bungalow with 9-over-1 sash windows and a front-gable Craftsman porch. The walls and eave brackets were covered with vinyl as of 2004.
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612 Arnette Ave.

Two-story frame modified late Queen Anne style house with cross gable roof features decorative bargeboard outlining the front and side gables and a wraparound porch with box- posts and match stick railing; later divided into three apartments.
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917 Burch Ave.

This two-story, side-gabled triplex is three-bays wide and double pile with a one-story shed- roofed addition across the rear. The earliest known resident is J. S. Carden (millhand) in 1919.
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1124-1126 Clarendon St.

12.30.58 (Courtesy Herald-Sun)
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303 Watts St.

Eye, ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Burton W. Fassett had this two-story frame Neocolonial house built in 1910. The original core was constructed along a center hall plan with an ell; several additions and enclosures are apparent on the north side and to the rear. There is a two-story cut-away corner bay on the south elevation. A full-facade porch shelters the 1-over-1 windows with leaded glass transonis and the entrance with leaded glass trabeated surround.
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419 Willard St.

09.09.58
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910 Ninth Street

910 Ninth Street, 03.28.12 (Courtesy Eric Heidt) A fine piece of historic Old West Durham, about to be torn down to bring you another stupendous new construction duplex, courtesy of Mr. Monsein and the Annihilation Company of North Carolina*. Aren't there some infill lots somewhere in OWD that could use some new housing? The raze and replace is...
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704 Cleveland St.

Alton S. Hobgood, attorney; office 128 West Main lived here in 1919.
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