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710 Morehead Avenue

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1014 Shepherd Street - John Shepherd House

1014 Shepherd Street Per the Durham Historic Inventory: "Grocer John Shepherd built this two-story frame house around 1911. Its configuration of a pyramidal-roofed coore from which two-story gable-roofed wings project prevailed throughout the late 19th to early 20th century. Decoration of the building was achieved through the sidelight and small...
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1212 Arnette Avenue - Thomas C. Atwood House

1929 (Courtesy Andrew Sprouse) The house at 1212 Arnette Avenue was built by/for Thomas C. Atwood in 1928. The Durham Architectural Inventory states: The only residence that the noted architect Arthur C. Nash designed in Durham is this two-and-one-half story Colonial Revival style dwelling executed for Nash's partner, Thomas Atwood. The combination...
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Batten's Quick Shop / Jimmy's Grill

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4719 Bahama Road

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Bowling-Glenn House

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Sam Hall Farm

07.16.11 A large rectangular vent on the center gable adorns the well-preserved Triple-A I-house built by tobacco farmer Sam Hall at the turn of the twentieth century. With plain weatherboard siding, two-over-two sash windows, full-facade hip-roofed porches front and back, and single shouldered brick end chimneys with corbelled stacks, the dwelling...
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Dewitt Umstead House

07.16.11 (Photo by Gary Kueber) Italics below from the 1990 Durham County Architectural Inventory: One of a small group of Durham County dwellings with Greek Revival and Italianate ornament, the 1877 tri-gable frame I-house built for DeWitt Clinton Umstead, the second child and first son born to Squire D. and Martha Umstead, is among Durham County...
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Markham Warehouse / Edgar Thompson Wholesale Grocery

1910
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Franklin House - 507 Yancey Street

Built as a rental house ~1901, this house was owner-occupied by the Franklin family for 50 years.
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