(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...

08.28.11 John C. Dailey House. Substantial 2 story, pyramidal-roofCraftsman/Colonial Revival style house with pedimented cross gables, plain siding, 1-over-1 sash windows, original glazed front door with 1 sidelight, wraparound porch with granite Craftsman posts, and a granite foundation. 1925 CD: J. C. Dailey occupant. Dailey operated a grocery on...

08.28.11 G. C. Glymph House. This beautiful hipped roof Foursquare features two interior chimneys, plain siding, 1-over-1 sash windows, and a front cross gable with a diamond vent. The original glazed and paneled entrance door has one sidelight. The most striking feature of the house is the 1-story porch that wraps completely around the front and...

08.28.11 Neal-Ford House. Substantial 2 1/2- story Neoclassical style house with a pyramidal roof, 2 interior chimneys, boxed and molded eaves, and plain siding. Openings include a glazed and paneled front door with transom and sidelights, large 1-over-1 sash windows, and a front gabled dormer with a Palladian window. Some upper sash have Queen...

08.28.11 W. F. Mansfield House. Stylish 1 1/2-story bungalow with a side gable roof with large front gable porch, very wide eaves, wide fascia board, exaggerated, Japanese- influenced brackets, 10-over-1 sash windows, and a side bay window. The front porch has bold battered brick posts, a projecting louvered vent, and bracketed lintel. Other...

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10.30.11 Adkins-Williams House. Set far back on a very large lot (for Watts Hillandale - 0.69 acres,) this house is nearly hidden from the street. Rambling, unusual Craftsman-style house with a front gable roof with a heavy front porch with two cross-gables, interiorchimneys, Queen Anne crow's-foot detail eave windows, 1-over-1 windows, a...

Stoner House, approx 1920 (postcard sent in 1924.) Back of postcard from Dr. Ira Stoner, 1924. One of my favorite odd and slightly spooky houses in Durham is now much less so in bright blue, and looks surprisingly more fairy talesque. National Register Entry: Dr. Ira J. Stoner House. Unusual 2-story, front gabled, Shingle Style house features...

10.30.11 John M. Martin House. 1-story, flat-roofed Spanish Mission style house features parapet walls, tiled hoods over the windows and a batten door. The exterior is stucco, with 6-over-6 sash windows flanked by 4-over-4 sashes. A front stone terrace features low stuccoed piers. A side chimney and an attached wood sided shed are on the north side...

Christy N. Hibberd House. Modest 1-story Craftsman style house with a side gable roof with an interior chimney, and deep bracketed eaves with exposed rafter tails. Windows are 4-over-1 Craftsman sash. A shallow gabled entrance porch with Craftsman piers shelters a French door. Additions were added to the side and rear in the 1990s.