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Glenn-Veazey Farm

The Glenn family, for whom a nearby road is named, established a farm complex and constructed this tri-gabled frame I-house in the early twentieth century. The house has original two-over-two sash windows, rear end chimneys, and a rear shed, but during the 1920s a Craftsman-style porch was added, and later the weatherboard siding was covered with...
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Cleveland Bragg House

Both the three black-and-white photos and the text in italics are from the Durham County Historic Architecture Inventory (NE-8 and NE-9). Either fertilizer magnate S. T. Morgan or William D. Holloway may have been the first owner of Durham County’s fanciest Triple-A I-house. Cleveland Bragg, a prosperous tobacco farmer with whom the house is...
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Roycroft House - 216 West Trinity Ave.

Very nice gable roofed two story brick Georgian style structure. Main body is symmetrical and rectangular. No front porch; instead, a distinctive arched entry area with supporting columns, beautiful front door with elliptical transom and sidelights. Matching one story wings on either side of house; one a screened porch and the other a carport; both...
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224 West Trinity Ave.

1981 Modern hipped roof two story brick structure dominated by two story portico with supporting Corinthian columns. 12.17.11
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809 Jackson Street

04.10.10 From 1985 NR nomination: Intact one-story, two-room-deep frame house with tall hipped roof and two interior chimneys. Tuscan columns support the full-facade hip-roofed porch. The front gabled attic dormer has a diamond-shaped vent and most of the original ornate curvilinear bargeboard attached to the cornice. Early twentieth century.
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Hampton Umstead Farmhouse

A wooded knoll is an attractive setting for the unusually fine tri-gable I-house built ca. 1890 for Florida Hampton Umstead, the thirteenth child and tenth son of Squire D. and Martha Umstead. Umstead, reported to have been a gentleman farmer, occupied the house as his business interests elsewhere permitted. He eventually moved into Bahama and the...
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A. K. Umstead House

Returning from service in the Confederate Army, Alvis Kinchen Umstead, the third child and second son of Squire D. and Martha Umstead, constructed a one-story, gable-roofed, dogtrot log house ca. 1866 for his bride, Emeline Harris. The structure is built over a fieldstone foundation and bracketed by fieldstone and brick end chimneys. The...
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Adolphus Umstead House

Individually-listed on the National Register, the 1850's (and likely earlier) Adolphus Umstead house once sat on 182 acres.
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Umstead, Squire D.

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Norman Tilley House

[Originally] adjoining the Mount Bethel Church in Bahama, a variant of the nationally popular Foursquare style with a projecting gabled bay was constructed for Norman Tilley in 1918. The dwelling has a number of Craftsman details such as a full-facade hip-roofed front porch with square porch posts, and four-over-one windows. When the church...
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