09.04.11 From the Durham Historic Inventory: Plastering contractor George F. O'Kelly had this two-story frame house constructed as his residence in 1913. The salient feature of the house is the very high hipped roof with a pedimented wing and a dormer covered with patterned tin shingles and finials at the crests. Originally, both of the very tall...

09.04.11 From the Durham Historic Inventory: This two-story irregularly shaped house dates from the late 1880s. According to Claude Vickers, the house was originally owned by his father, William Gaston Vickers, and was constructed on the northwest corner of Morehead and Vickers Avenues. WG Vickers gave the house and the entire block bounded by...

09.04.11 (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Due to their imposing two-story forms, this house and the two just to the west render this block the most distinctive of the more densely developed northern end of Morehead Hill. This vernacular Queen Anne style house is said to have...

09.04.11 From the 1985 National Register Historic District application for Morehead Hill: One of the most distinctive of the moderately-sized frame houses characterizing the northwest end of the Morehead Hill District. Now a duplex, it is one-and-one-half stories tall with a clipped gable roof and a two-tiered hip-roofed porch at the entrance bay...

09.04.11 From the Durham History Inventory: Mann Cabe Peterson, an owner of Patterson and Suitt, Auto Garage, formerly located on East Chapel Hill Street, constructed this two-story single-pile house with a one story wing across the rear in the early 1910s. Originally, the house stood on the lot directly behind in the 900 block of Vickers Ave; it...

1000 Arnette Avenue From the Durham Historic Inventory - It is possible that Durham contractor Tyson Crisp, who built the WL Whitted house at 1204 West Markham Avenue, a similar but more ambitious Spanish Revival style house, also was responsible for this one-story stucco on frame dwelling constructed in the late 1920s for Durham Dairy Products...

617 Morehead Ave., 09.04.11

1981 This building has been marketed on and off for the past 3 years. I haven't researched it myself, but the real estate listing calls the building a "former railroad hotel in the 1930s." Perhaps - I usually find the history in real estate listings to be egregiously wrong (even when they use my photos,) so consider it a possibility. 06.07.08

1937 - Vickers' farmhouse is in the middle of the block between Hill, Cobb, Proctor, and Vickers. William Gaston Vickers’ land - acquired from Atlas Rigsbee - 200 acres for $1500. Built or occupied a farmhouse by the 1870s. Anecdotally made his money back in one parcel sale - to George Watts. Aerial, 1959, showing new houses under construction -...