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1001 Watts Street

Fine example of an English cottage Period House, this 1930s one-and-one-half-story brick dwelling exhibits multiple cross gables, a front facade step shouldered chimney, and an arched stone entry surround set in a small gabled projection.
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508 N. Buchanan Blvd.

This two-story frame house reportedly was constructed early in this century by realtor Rufus Aiken, reported by [an] owner and other long-time neighborhood residents to have constructed several other similar frame houses in the immediate area. The house retains its slate roof and original one-story wraparound porch supported by Tuscan colunns.The earliest known occupant was J.A. Mack, travelling salesman. He was succeeded here by Lyndon C. Patterson, realtor.
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2106 Chapel Hill Road

J. Bunyan Atwater House. One-story Craftsman-style house with pyramidal roof, boxed eaves, a hipped front dotmer, 1 interior chimney, German siding, and 9/1 sash windows. The entrance has 1 sidelight, and the hipped porch has Craftsman posts and a replacement wood railing. One bay of the porch is enclosed as a room.
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309 N. Elizabeth St.

09.30.07 From the 1981 Durham Tech Survey of the neighborhood: a small, square, single-story, weatherboarded Victorian cottage resting on a brick pier and infill foundation and is five bays wide and four bays deep with a large projecting gabled bay on the east front facade. The cross-gable roof, out of which rises a single stuccoed brick chimney...
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516 Holloway Street

From the National Register nomination: Fidelity Bank cashier L. D. Kirkland built this foursquare in the late 1910s. Its principal stylistic features include the tall and narrow windows with latticed muntins in the upper sashes, which appear on the main facade and at the landing of the tall double- run staircase dominating the large reception hall...
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525 Holloway Street

a simple, early 20th Century, two-story, three bay wide and three room deep, weatherboarded, Victorian, triple-A I-house resting on a solid brick foundation with a one-story, hip roof rear wing to which has been added a shed addition. The asphalt shingled roof is pierced by two interior brick chimneys and has a wide frieze board and boxed cornices...
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514 Gordon Street

February 1982 03.18.12 (G. Kueber) 06.27.2018 (G. Kueber)
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1607 Duke University Road

(Courtesy David Southern) Lizzie Burch was resident in the 1920s through at least 1933. The house contents were sold at auction in 1969, and the house was demolished soon thereafter for construction of an apartment complex (Courtesy David Southern) Miss Burch taught piano out of her home during the early 20th century. 1607 is the westernmost...
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811 Yancey Street

From 2004 NR nomination: 1-story pyramidal cottage with 2 interior chimneys, plain weatherboard, 2- over-2 sash windows, and 2 front gables with louvered ventilators. The hipped porch has replacement boxed posts. J. N. Lasater, owner ofLasater Roofmg Co., occupant in 1925 and 1930. [1913 SM, 1925-1930 CD]
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710 Holloway Street

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