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1312 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) T-shaped brick-veneered house with two-story gable-front wing at top of the "T" and one-and-one-half-story wing with engaged arcaded porch and hip-roofed dormer at the "stem" parallel to the street. Small one-story porch with brick piers at corners...
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1308 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Frame two-story Foursquare built circa 1930 as upstairs/downstairs duplex, identical to 1011 Dacian Ave. except that original wooden supports of entrance hoods have been replaced with metal lattice supports.
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1206 West Markham Avenue

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Frame Foursquare with deep eaves, molded box cornices, and full-facade porch now screened in. Tall hipped roof and narrow two-story, three-sided bay on west elevation indicate fairly early construction date for this style, apparently around 1910.
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1411 Green Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Handsome frame Foursquare with raised seam tin on low hipped roof with hipped attic dormer and two interior chimneys. Hip-roofed rear one-story ell and almost full-facade front porch with panelled box posts on brick plinths. Neoclassical details...
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803 North Buchanan Boulevard

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the late 1920s, this two-story brick Foursquare presents a narrow facade to the street. Two small, flat-­roofed porches upheld by Tuscan columns shelter the entries in the outer bays. Grouped nine-over-one and twelve-over-one windows further...
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708 North Buchanan Boulevard – Cranford House (ii)

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This is the second house of Dr. William I. Cranford (704 N. Buchanan Blvd was the first); Cranford was chairman of the Durham County Board of Education as well as a Duke professor by the time he occupied this house in the late 1920s. The frame...
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604 North Buchanan Boulevard – Monk House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) William Plato Monk, tobacconist with the Big Four Warehouse, was the owner-occupant popularly associated with this two-story Type B bungalow built circa 1925. It features shingled gables, paired nine-over-one and diamond patterned windows, and a...
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602 North Buchanan Boulevard

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This shingled Type A bungalow was constructed in the 1920s and occupied first by John Carr Jr., professor at Duke. Typical features include a gabled dormer, multi-paned windows which are paired or grouped by three's, and a rectangular shed-roofed bay...
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512 North Buchanan Boulevard – Mcgranaham House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Lumberman L. McGranaham was the first resident of this two-story gable-roofed frame house built between 1915 and 1919. A variety of elements characterize its exterior, including shaped rafter ends; multiple window forms; a hip-roofed porch which once...
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510 North Buchanan Boulevard

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Constructed 1920s, a frame Foursquare features a hipped roof with central interior chimney. A full-facade porch is neatly detailed with tapered paneled box posts on brick piers; two entries are found on either side of paired nine-over-one windows.
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