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909 Monmouth Avenue

Modest frame Foursquare with typical full-facade porch on tapered box posts and brick plinths. Large exterior chinmey on east elevation has a single shoulder on one side.
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2612 West Knox Street

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1709 North Roxboro Street

One of the most finely detailed Georgian Revival style houses in the Duke Park neighborhood is this two story brick dwelling built for Laura Duke in 1926 when the style was at the height of its popularity. Characteristic Georgian Revival style features include the five bay, double pile center hall plan; the gable roof dormers with pilasters flanking the arched windows; the denticulated cornice; and the entrance flanked by Doric columns and pilasters. An uncommon feature of the brick veneered house is the gambrel roofline.
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4304 Highway 70

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825 Onslow Street

813 Onslow St. Type A bungalow with hip-roofed dormer and engaged porch wrapping around south elevation.
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2308 West Club Boulevard

Williams-Muse House. Craftsman style house with a side gabled roof with clipped gables, two interior chimneys, 6-over-1 paired sash windows, and plain siding. The French entrance door has a bracketed hood. An original side porch has lovely Craftsman posts. 1925 CD: C. F. Williams occupant. The Muse family has resided in the house for many years as of 2000.
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1200 West Markham Avenue

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912 Anderson Street

2011
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Milton Hill School

The school site is noted in DB58 P372: "That EW Warren and JR Turnage, in consideration of one dollar to them paid by the said County BOard of Education, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have bargained and sold... a tract or parcel of land ... adjoining the lands of William Terry, said Warren and Turnage, and the old Milton Hill school...
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Mount Lebanon Primitive Baptist Church

01.29.12 The Mount Lebanon Primitive Baptist Church was established in 1839; the old church burned in 1964 and was replaced with a masonry structure; the original graveyard, with marked graves back to the 1880s.
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