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Forty Oaks

From the County Historic Inventory: Originally the property of Edward Malette, the farm now called Forty Oaks was purchased in 1865 as part of a 1,435 acre plantation by Fendal Southerland, bother of Stagville overseer, Phillip Southerland. Facing financial ruin, Southerland is reported to have committed suicide in 1878. The plantation was...

604 Saint Joseph St.

803 Mebane Street

602 Saint Joseph St.

608 Saint Joseph St.

606 Saint Joseph St.

610 Saint Joseph St.

612 Saint Joseph St.

110 Young Avenue

1013 South Duke - The Round Houses

Eclectic housing - particularly eclectic yet modest housing - is, for the most part, a lost form in America, sacrificed at the altar of mass production in the 1950s. Right on the cusp of that change, Durham welcomed two of its more whimisical houses, the round houses on South Duke St. The houses were built, according to a nice writeup in the N&Os we'll-pay-attention-on-Saturday paper, the Durham News, by local architect Archie Royal Davis. He built the two houses out of cinderblock.