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2815 Chelsea Circle

Two-story side-gabled Tudor Revival house with stucco exterior and clinker stones, dominated by an off-center two-story gabled portico with half-timbering and a glass-enclosed second-story porch; stonework at the squared porch columns at the first floor; slightly projecting front-gabled bay left of the portico; recessed side-gabled wing with gabled...
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Pearse, Arthur Sperry

Date of birth
03.15.1877
Date of death
12.11.1956
Place of birth
Crete, NE
Place of death
Durham, NC
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9123 South Lowell Road - Cobb Farms / Pearse House

(Courtesy Cissy Pearse) It's not clear to me who was the original occupant / owner of the house at 9123 South Lowell Road. In ~1908, James S. Cobb acquired multiple tracts of land near Rougemont Road and South Lowell Road. The metes and bounds descriptions of these tracts ( "from the pile of rocks at Sasquatch's corner...," etc.) make it very hard...
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1701 West Club Boulevard

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520 South Duke Street

520 South Duke is partially visible to the immediate right - 11.21.67
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604 South Duke Street

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Fire Station #7

02.20.68 Station 7, ~2008.
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Liggett Office Building

---------- Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) The block currently encircled by North Duke, West Main, Morgan, and Fuller Sts. originally held what appears to have been a tobacco field and wood frame structures of the...
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1909 Haverford

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1303 Arnette Avenue

Side-gabled 1-story stuccoed Tudor Cottage with half-timbered gable ends and a gable porch with arched bays, a stuccoed railing, and a half-timbered gable. Other features are bracketed eaves, exposed rafter tails, and 9-over-1 sash windows. Frederick C. Owen, attorney and trust officer, The Fidelity Bank, occupant in 1930. CD. [1937 SM, 1930 CD]
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