08.28.11 Ernest C. Brown House. 2-story brick Georgian Revival style house with side gable roof, 6-over-6 sash windows, end chimney, and lunette eave window. Other features are an entrance porch with lattice balcony, a classical side porch with lattice roof railing, and on the other side, a classical porte cochere with roof railing. 1940 CD: Ernest...

08.28.11 W. H. Butler House. Substantial 1 1/2-story bungalow with interior chimneys, a shed dormer with five Craftsman windows, deep eaves with exposed rafters, 12- over-1 sash windows, and a side bay window. The full porch has boxed posts on stone piers and a porte cochere. A side stair leads to the 2nd story. Other features include plain siding...

08.28.11 Walter Biggs House. 1 1/2-story Dutch Colonial style house with a gambrel roof, exterior end chimney, plain siding, and paired 6-over-1 sash windows. The entrance has sidelights and a heavy bracketed hood. The side porch is enclosed. The house was modified to accommodate apartments. 1930 CD: Walter A. Biggs occupant.

08.28.11 Wm. B. Farr House. Small scale Foursquare house with a side gable roof, interior chimney, triple 8-over-1 sash windows, a glazed and paneled front door, plain siding, a full width shed porch with square fluted columns, and a rear addition. 1930 CD: Wm. B. Farr occupant.

08.28.11 E. C. Dameron House. Substantial bungalow with a side gable roof, central chimney, wood shake exterior walls, and 4-over-1 windows in pairs and triples. The replacement door has a 4-pane transom. The gabled porch has stucco piers and tripled boxed posts, arched impost blocks, a peaked lintel, and deep eaves with brackets and exposed rafter...

08.28.11 Mitchell-Baker House. Side-gabled Classical Revival cottage with corbeled eaves, vented dormers, 9-over-1 paired windows, a paneled front door with transom and sidelights, and a classical arched entrance porch with fluted columns. The side screened porch has fluted columns. D. C. Mitchell Jr., bookkeeper at Durham Lumber Co., had this...

08.28.11 R. P. Skinner House. Hipped-roof bungalow with a front cross-gable with vent, an engaged porch with paired and tripled boxed posts on brick piers, a French front door, 12-over-1 sash windows, eave brackets, an interior chimney and plain siding. 1925 CD: R. P. Skinner occupant.

Samuel R. Greene House. 1 1/2-story, side-gable bungalow with an end chimney, front gable dormer, exposed eave brackets, wood shake siding, and a front gable wing. It has 5-over-1 Craftsman sash windows, a Craftsman front door, and a side bay window. The wraparound gabled porch has brick posts and open brickwork railing. Durham Lumber Co. supt...

J. T. Kerr Jr. House. 1 1/2-story stuccoed English Cottage with a side gable roof with clipped gables, interior and front chimneys, exposed rafter tails and brackets, and 4-over-1 Craftsman windows. A bracketed arched hood tops the original paneled door and the engaged side porch with ladder posts has French doors. Another set of French doors open...

(The information below in italics is from the Historic Preservation Society of Durham Plaque Application for the Mamie C. Norwood House) In 1928, when Rosehill Avenue was still a dirt lane, Widow Mamie Norwood ordered her dream home from a Sears & Roebuck catalogue and built a frame house at the end of Rosehill. Everything but the brick and mortar...