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Massey, Grover Vance

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112 Pinecrest Road - Paul F Baum Residence

Designed by William Potter.
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1804 Sunset Avenue

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2421 Perkins Road

Per Triangle Modernist Houses: Colonel Rambeau House Built by Eileen Johns, pioneer woman real estate broker and builder, who sold and built Lustron houses in the Durham area from 1948-1951. Added a garage. Sold to the Mitchells. Sold in 1957 to Charles Albert (Al) Hilliard who added the back room and bath and then joined it to the garage...
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1906 Glendale Ave.

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1811 Glendale Ave.

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2120 Sprunt Ave. – Keir Lustron House

(Courtesy of Lappegard Photography, March 2019) Featured in the 2019 Preservation Durham Home Tour (text in italics below from the tour booklet): This little house on Sprunt Avenue is a truly rare American architectural gem. It is a “Lustron” house – made entirely of enameled steel inside and out. The house was prefabricated and sold by the Lustron...
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1404 Virginia Avenue

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Lustrons of Durham

The Lustron house is a quirky branch on the evolutionary path of mass housing production in the United States during the mid-20th century. I'm not an expert on this topic, and there are entire websites devoted to Lustron fandom out there to peruse. Various attempts to mass produce housing in the US date back to at least the first decade of the 20th...
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Massey-Harrell House

Dutch-Colonial style residence in Trinity Park
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