08.28.11 Homer Montsinger House. 2 1/2-story, front gable Tudor Revival cottage with stuccoed walls, central chimney, timber eaves, 6-over-1 Craftsman sash windows, two side shed dormers, and original glazed and paneled door with sidelights. The engaged side porch and the front gable porch have stuccoed columns. 1930 CD: Homer E. Montsinger...

08.28.11 Harry F. Watkins House. 2-story, side gabled Colonial Revival house with interior chimneys, 6-over-6 sash windows, double French doors, and a side porch with massive entablature and two huge plain columns. The front entry is a bracketed pergola over a French door. The house has plain siding and appears to have been converted to apartments.

08.28.11 Fall 2022 update: This home is having its 100th Birthday and you're invited! Find out more about the free (but donations welcome) Garden Party put on by these generous homeowners and Preservation Durham here. Below, in italics, from the 2001 National Register Historic District nomination for Watts-Hillandale: Hixon-Barton House. Side...

08.28.11 J.C. Kluttz House. Tudor Cottage with steep side gable roof with an exterior end chimney, plain siding and 9-over-l paired sash windows. The replacement front door has a pedimented stoop and boxed posts. A recessed comer porch has boxed posts and a plain railing. 1930 CD: John C. Kluttz occupant.

08.28.11 J. R. Bagwell House. Foursquare with a hip roof with hip dormers, Craftsman sash windows on the 1st story, 12-over-1 sash windows on the 2nd story, wood shake siding, a glazed and paneled front door, and a hip roof porch with paneled posts and plain railing. 1925 CD: J. R. Bagwell occupant. Bagwell ran an eponymous plumbing-heating...

08.28.11 Susie G. Michaels House. 2-story, hip roof Colonial Revival I Craftsman style house with deep bracketed eaves, plain siding, 9-over-1 paired sash windows, a side porch with classical columns, French door with transom and· sidelight, and interior chimneys. The entry portico has classic columns. 1930 CD: Susie G. Michaels occupant.

08.28.11 Mrs. L. E. Winston House. Front gable bungalow with German siding, wood shakes on gable ends, Craftsman windows, eave brackets, a French front door with one sidelight, and an engaged porch with brick Craftsman posts and plain railings. In the rear is a modern 2-story addition. 1925 CD: Mrs. L. E. Winston and A. G. Coxe occupants.

08.28.11 I. W. Bingham House. 1 1/2-story bungalow with a slate, side gable roof with a shed dormer, interior chimney, wood shake siding, bracketed eaves, and triple 3- over-1 Craftsman sash windows flanking the front door. The original Craftsman door has a bracketed, gabled hood. The side porch has twelve pane casement windows. 1925 CD: I. W...

08.28.11 Mrs. Rebecca Weaver House. Front-gable bungalow with deep bracketed eaves, an entrance with four pane transom, triple 9-over-1 and 12-over-1 windows flanking the front door, and aluminum siding. The engaged porch has brick posts and rails with stone top and insets. 1925 CD: Mrs. Rebecca Weaver & W. E. Weaver occupants.

216 Rigsbee, on the right. (Courtesy Durham County Library) The once-residential area on Rigsbee developed from the tobacco warehouses south and from Mangum north during the 1920s. The house in the middle, now 204-208 Rigsbee, was demolished for parking (yep, even back in the 1920s.) The above photo shows the lot to the left of 216 Rigsbee from the...