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209 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Built in the late 1950s, this boxy two-story brick house is topped by a low hipped roof and lighted by eight-over-eight shuttered windows. An entrance porch with balcony is ornamented by decorative metal posts and railings. The entrance is flanked by...
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1110 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A 1950s two-story, two-room-deep frame house sheathed in weatherboards molded to look like shingles. A hipped roof is set off by scallop detailing at the cornice. Shuttered eight-over-eight windows and an entry topped by a swan's neck pediment with...
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1108 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) The symmetrical three-bay facade features a gable entry porch on plain box posts. Although it was built in the 1950s, it is compatible with the neighboring older buildings. Now covered with vinyl siding.
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210 Watts Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A recent two-story brick apartment building with a small side porch and exterior staircase.
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1013 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This late 1920s brick Foursquare has a pyramidal roof which flares to wide eaves and a centered hip-roofed dormer. A full-facade hip-roofed front porch is carried by heavy brick columns and a brick balustrade trimmed by granite. A recent brick wall...
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1007 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Late 1930s classically styled one-and-one-half-­story brick house with side gables and three weatherboarded gable-front dormers. The three-bay, three-room-deep block is detailed with eight-over­-eight windows, a center entry flanked by sidelights...
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1001 North Gregson Street – Jacob Freedman House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Clothier Jacob Freedman had this two-story frame Colonial Revival style house built in the late 1920s. Gambrel roof is overlaid with almost full-facade shed-roofed dormers. Other principal elements of this style include quarter-round attic vents, an...
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911 North Gregson Street – Jesse Bishop House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Jesse Bishop, vice-president of Miller­-Bishop, had this two-story brick Colonial Revival pattern book house constructed in the late 1920s for his family. Characteristic of the style are the side gable roof, interior-end chimney, twelve-over-one...
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907 North Gregson Street – William Berry House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) William Berry had this one-and-one-­half-story brick Period House built in the late 1920s. The steeply pitched gabled roof with large shed-roofed dormers appears on several other houses in the neighborhood. A salient feature is an imposing chimney...
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905 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) James Deltart, physical plant director of Duke University, was the first occupant of this house, in the late 1920s. This Type A bungalow holds a shed-roofed dormer, an exterior-end chimney which pierces the eaves, and a full-facade porch with solid...
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