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Richard L. Cox And James O. May Residence

Sold in 2005 to Barbara R. Haight.
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Yi And Ellen Kong Residence

This is Plan P-742 from the plan book Encyclopedia of Home Designs 1967 by Master Plan Service, Inc. 4000 square feet.
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Horst And Ruth Mary Meyer Residence

This is Plan P-907 from the plan book Encyclopedia of Home Designs 1967 by Master Plan Service, Inc. 3000 square feet. Sold in 2007 to Scott and Julie Hollenbeck. Sold in 2010 to Jina Park and Alan Russell.
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Helen Perry Residence

Per NC Modernist home was designed by John Latimer for Helen Perry after the death of her husband. The family originally resided at the home at 3413 Rugby Road which was also designed by Latimer and the large 10+ acre plot was divided to provide the lot for the house at 3429 Rugby as well as several others. Sold to Keith and Jill Kaye in 2000. Sold to Sally and David Vasbinder in July 2006. Renovations by Lee Tripi in late 2000s.
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1912 Wilshire Dr.

Sold to the City of Durham in 1984. Sold in 1985 to Lester and Therese Fahrner. Sold in 1985 to David M. and Gracie Welsh. Sold in 1991 to Larry H. and Nancy M. Rocamora.
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Marcus Tilley House

From the National Register Nomination for the house: The Marcus Tilley house is an I-house, built about 1880, over an earlier one-and-a-half-story log house with a one-and-a-half-story rear shed. The house and surrounding outbuildings stand as the centerpiece of the 13.63 acre home tract ofthe Marcus Tilley Farm, adjacent to Lake Michie in the...
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Bettie Ann Tilley House

Built in 1918, this house lost its central chimney for bathrooms - which originally were housed in a three-seater outhouse.
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Marcus Mangum House

Mangums have been in the Bahama area since the 1750S. Marcus and Ida Mangum bought three acres of land in the village of Bahama in 1913, but the Mangum family soon outgrew the house that was on the property. Marcus wanted to recycle materials from the old house into a new larger one, so during construction, the Mangum family, which by 1919 included...
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2003 Preservation Durham Home Tour - Historic Bahama: Durham's Country Crossroads

Historic Bahama: Durham's Country Crossroads Long before Dr. Bartlett Durham sold a parcel of land to the railroad for a station, many families had settled in the northern part of what was then Orange County. As early as the 1740S settlers were moving south from Virginia and Maryland and west from the coastal settlements to the wooded frontier of...
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Oscar Durham House

This unusual center chimney house sits on a tract known locally as the Oscar Durham Farm. Deed records show that the property belonged to Oscar Durham in the second decade of the twentieth century. It later passed to W.W. Edwards, Sr., who sold the farm to the present owner, William R. Walker about 1955. The two-story double-pile residence exhibits...
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