An unusual house type for Durham County, the frame one-and-a-half-story coastal cottage thought to have been built ca. 1812 by John Nichols, has been in his family-by-marriage for almost 185 years. When Nichols was killed in an accident, the house became the property of his widow, Mary, who married Granderson Philpott. Title subsequently passed to...

Once among the most stylish residences in northeast Durham County, this mid-nineteenth- century frame I-house with a low hip roof was demolished several years ago. In an area of relatively modest houses, this one was notable for its paired Italianate two-over-two windows and its paneled double-leaf entry door with sidelights and transom; all were...

The Harry Morgan Family Complex, a rectangular, hip-roofed, one-story box-and-canopy store and a Craftsman-style house, typify the house and business ensembles constructed to serve automobile travelers on newly improved roads in Durham County during the 1920s and 30s. The canopy projecting from the main facade of the store is characteristic of an...

Charles Husketh, a prominent farmer in the Gorman area, built this one story, double-pile house in 1918. He and his wife had three daughters, one of whom still resides in the house, and another who is the present owner. Husketh donated the land to Gorman Baptist Church where the present sanctuary and cemetery are located: he is buried there. The...

The early-nineteenth-century, three-bay, frame dwelling built over a high fieldstone foundation is one of a very few hall-parlor houses that have survived in Durham County. The entry door of six raised panels, held in place by H and HL hinges, opens into an ample hall with wide- board flooring, horizontal wainscoting, and plaster, all refinements...

02.07.09 Owned by Samuel and Marjorie Stanley. 07.16.11

A one-pen log house built during the first half of the nineteenth century was enlarged in the early twentieth century by a frame room of the same approximate size, each having a separate entrance and exterior end chimney. A massive rubble-stone chimney serves the nineteenth- century pen, and a smaller fieldstone and brick chimney, inscribed, “built...

Designed by Christie with plans drawn by architect and builder John Hartley. She wrote a book about it, Green House, and as of 2009 was working on a sequel.

Olsen built it as a spec house, although he did live there a short time. Design/build by Bill Christopher and Matt Hosmer or ILM Design and Build of Wilmington. Sold May 2009 to current owners Derek Cornish and Sally White. Photos by ILM.