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612-614 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Characteristic of late 1940s classical styling, this symmetrical two-story eight-unit brick-veneered building features two slightly projecting wings on either end of a rectangular main block; the four gables are weatherboarded. Each entrance held in...
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608-610 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) An irregularly-shaped late 1930s two-story brick-veneered duplex carrying a gable roof; a large gabled projection forms the center bay. Pedimented entrances are flanked by fluted pilasters and bands of six-over-six windows light the interior.
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604-606 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This late 1920s two-story brick-veneered duplex is distinguished by a hip roof with central dormer, wide eaves with exposed rafter ends, nine-over-one windows, stepped single-shouldered chimneys, and gabled porch roofs. Porch supports are tapered box...
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600-602 North Gregson Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Beginning a block of duplexes and apartments, this late 1930s two-story brick-veneered building retains an interior chimney and applied sawn work at the frieze. A four-bay front facade holds two entries at the center flanked by fluted pilasters and...
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712 Carter Ave.

I'd be fascinated to know where the windows of this house came from; they were clearly salvaged out of an larger, likely 1880s house.
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1113 North Duke Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This early 1920s one-story frame cottage exhibits bungalow features including wide bracketed eaves with exposed rafter ends and a large shingled and gabled projection which engages a full-facade porch on solid brick piers.
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Willis Aldridge House

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Constructed in the 1920s, this two-story frame Foursquare exhibits box cornices with return, a centrally-placed front gable-crossing the side-gable roofline, and nine-over-one windows. Full-facade shed-roofed porch retains a gable marking the...
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1109 North Duke Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story, two-room-deep house with high hipped roof, a design popular across the state at the turn-of-the-century. The roof carries a small gable. A full-facade porch carried by Tuscan columns shelters the entrance and follows the lines of the house...
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1107 North Duke Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This late 1920s one-story cottage is a variation of a Type A bungalow designed with a broad gable front and porch supported by box posts on brick plinths with a patterned balustrade. A stepped double-shouldered exterior end chimney and five-over-one...
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1105 North Duke Street

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Very small late 1920s one-story gable-roofed house detailed with box cornices with returns, four-over-one windows, a full three-bay terrace defined by brick and granite piers, and a gabled portico held by triangular brackets.
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