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1707 Green Street

12.11.11 Noted as "Sallie Pulley - grocer" in the 1931-1938 Durham city directories.
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2002 Preservation Durham Home Tour: "Farm to Green; Old Hope Valley, an Early Garden Suburb"

THE COUNTRY LIFE: When, in the mid-1920s, R. J. Mebane from Greensboro and W E Sharpe from Burlington conceived an upscale development organized around a golf course and country club, they created one of America's earliest proto- types for a suburban commuter development that depended entirely upon the auto- mobile. Inspired by the local economic...
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Triangle Modernist Houses "Misc Durham" Tour

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Spencer And Rosemary Overton House

Architect unknown.
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John Bernard Pfeiffer Jr Residence

Local architect unknown.
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706 East Main St. - Parker's Restaurant

1980 (Duke Chanticleer) A longtime favorite, particularly with Duke students, Parker's seems to have closed sometime in the 1990s, but I'm unsure when. As of 2008-2011, the building houses JC's kitchen, where "the food is anointed, and you won't be disappointed." (Yes, that JC.) 06.25.13 (Photo by Gary Kueber) 06.25.13. One of the better signs in...
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Ruth Shaw Residence- 1210 Anderson St.

Architect unknown.
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Russell Robinson House - 115 Ashworth Drive

Designed, built and lived in by Robinson and his family.
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Olive Branch Church

A group of Baptists living in western Wake County formed a new congregation in 1875 and requested the services of student ministers at Wake Forest College. Rufus Ford became the first pastor of the new Olive Branch Baptist Church and the congregation met for worship in the Dayton Academy building (now demolished). After Ford graduated in 1878, other student pastors served until in 1924 professional clergy replaced them. The following year, the present church building, a unique structure in Durham County, was completed.
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5006 Wake Forest Highway

12.08.11
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