Isaac M. Garrard (1889-1976), and his wife, Lonie Sanford (1890-1982), built this residence in 1922. The Garrards had four children. Their oldest son, Joseph W., started the Garrard Sausage business in Durham County. Isaac Garrard sold the house to his son Robert in 1967. This frame dwelling represents a rural derivative of the American Foursquare...

A. G. Cox, superintendent of the cotton mill at Orange Factory purchased a portion of the Lipscombe Plantation in the 1880s and constructed a frame tri-gable I-house with Gothic Revival detailing. In 1887, shortly after the farmhouse was completed, Issac Emerson, inventor of Bromo Seltzer, purchased it and 162 acres of land for his sister, Anna...

A. G. Cox, superintendent of the cotton mill at Orange Factory purchased a portion of the Lipscombe Plantation in the 1880s and constructed a frame tri-gable I-house with Gothic Revival detailing. A low roof with bargeboard decoration on the eaves, a wide and prominent center gable with an oversized window, a single end chimney, and a unique wrap...

An intriguing inscription on the floor of a twentieth-century well house documents the history of a much-renovated frame I-house that was the antebellum home of William J. Duke, older brother of tobacco magnate, Washington Duke: Built in 1825 W. J. Duke Rebuilt in 1896 J. E. Lyon Rebuilt in 1936 Rosa A. Lyon Belvin The dwelling’s basic form is that...

Barbara and Allan Powell earned the 1986 architectural conservation award from the Historic Preservation Society of Durham for their rehabilitation of the unusual two-story Craftsman- style dwelling built by Odie and Sally Umstead in 1926. The house was badly deteriorated when the Powells purchased it in 1983 along with 50 acres of the original 350...

An archetypal saddlebag plan is found in this two-room, story-and-a-half log house with an attached rear kitchen ell. One room or pen is located on either side of a central chimney and each has a separate entrance. Two families could thus live side by side, an arrangement commonly found in early tenant houses such as this one may have been. The...

Set among mature hardwood trees, this combination L-plan and pyramidal cottage, built around 1905, is one of the best-preserved examples of its type in Durham County. The one-and- a-half-story frame house has a high hip roof with front and side gable-roofed wings, a front porch with original turned posts, two-over-two sash windows with peaked...

The owner of this one-story gable-front frame building believes that it was a school for African- American children in the 1920s. The building is very similar in appearance to the Russell School, and is likely one of the eighteen Rosenwald schools constructed in Durham County before 1930. The exterior is very well preserved, with plain weatherboard...

Late Victorian and Craftsman-style features are featured here on the popular one-story, one- room-deep house form. When James and Ida Rhew built their three-bay, tri-gable house in the early twentieth century, they embellished it with simple Victorian decoration. Clipped corners at either end of the house are ornamented by a single oval window, and...

The Nichols-Belvin-Stokes House, a single-pen log farmhouse located on a knoll not far from Ellerbe Creek, dates to the early years of the nineteenth century. Characteristic of an early homestead are the large fieldstone and brick exterior end chimney, the steeply pitched gable roof, and the rear batten door. The interior contains a single room...