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Duke Campus Farm

Operated by Duke University. Opened in late 2010. It's sustainable and organic. Check it out!
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Duke Campus Farm

In late 2010, Duke University started a sustainable farm in Duke Forest. Check here for more info.
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Paschall-Thomas House

08.28.11 E. R. Thomas House. - E. R. Thomas, the original owner, operated a drugstore on Ninth St. Large 2-story Craftsman/Colonial Revival style house with a hip slate roof, interior chimneys, hip roof dormer with louvers, and plain siding. The fenestration consists of tall, 1-over-1 sash windows and a 2-story east side bay window. The replacement...
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Uzzle Used Car Pagoda

09.10.11 Built as the used car sales office for the Uzzle Cadillac dealership across the street, this building is certainly downtown Durham's only pagoda. Originally "on stilts," the ground level was later filled in and used by a realty company. Bobby Inscoe Realty was one former occupant. It's now owned by Acme Plumbing, located next door. This...
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513 Gordon Street

February 1982. You could write a great Southern novel not-even-that-loosely-based on the goings on in and around this house. Note the piano and American flag. Not shown: religious shrines in backyard, sculptures, plentiful cats, revolving cast of characters. 09.04.11
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2004 West Club Blvd.

08.28.11 L. F. Butler House. 1 1/2-story Dutch Colonial style house with a gambrel roof with continuous shed dormer, original 9-over-1 sash windows, and an original glazed and paneled door with 4-pane transom and a bracketed hood. The house also has an end chimney and a flat-roofed sunroom wing. Vinyl siding. 1925 City Directory: L. F. Butler...
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McCollum-Eure House

08.28.11 W. T. Eure House. W. T. Eure purchased the lot in 1919 and built the house soon afterwards. His daughters worked at Watts Hospital, and nurses boarded here. Two-story Queen Anne/Colonial Revival style house with a hip roof, plain siding, and original 12-over-1 sash windows. The original glazed and paneled door has sidelights and a transom...
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3218 Guess Road - The 'dome Building'

(Via ReverbNation - 200something) 09.10.11 (G. Kueber) On an all-things-dome website, 3218 Guess Road is noted as having been built in 1989 by "Tommy" with a "40 foot diameter, high-profile dome" and referred to as the "Desic Restaurant." It's certainly one of the more unusual structures in Durham - I certainly like it for that reason alone, even...
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2003 West Club Blvd.

While it may more often be known as the "bathtub house" to passersby, the house at 2003 West Club was built in 1921 for William H. Woods. Woods was contractor who worked with West Durham Lumber Co. and the Durham Ice and Coal Co. B rick Foursquare house with hip roof and a monitor at the peak also features an interior end chimney, 3-over-1...
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