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2112 Chapel Hill Road

This Craftsman-style 1-story side-gabled duplex has 1 exterior and 1 interior chimney, an entrance with 1 sidelight, 3/1 sash windows, and a partially engaged front-gabled porch with Craftsman posts and a wood railing.

2110 Chapel Hill Road

This side gabled cottage from the 1930s, split into a duplex, features an exterior chimney and 6/1 sash windows.

2108 Chapel Hill Road

This side-gabled Period Cottage duplex has 6/6 sash windows, 2 front doors, and a partially recessed front-gabled porch. In 1937 John W. Atwater was one of the tenants here.

William C. Grady House - 2104 Chapel Hill Road

(Below in italics is from the 2003 Lakewood Park National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) William C. Grady House. Minimal Traditional-style 1-story side-gabled brick house with replacement sash windows and a shed porch with boxed posts. Wm. C. Grady was the owner and occupant in 1952. [1952 CD]

2017 Chapel Hill Road

(Below in italics is from the 2003 Lakewood Park National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Commercial Building. One-story brick veneer commercial building with a flat roof and a raised basement. A metal shed porch shelters the two glass storefronts. Current occupants are Lakewood Laundry and Rocks Pawn Bail Bonds. From...

2717 Shaw Rd. - Shaw Farm

06.02.14 (G. Kueber) The county website states that the house at 2717 Shaw was built in 1944, although the general style of the house appears older. The interior finishes are consistent with 1940s, as is exterior brick work. The deed trace becomes rather difficult before 1989, when Mary Ann Shaw Bailey and Malcolm Bailey Jr. subdivided the larger...

Duke Gardens Dawn Redwood

05.31.14 Per the Duke Gardens website: The Dawn Redwood has a unique history. In 1941, a Japanese paleobotanist named Dr. Shigeru Miki was studying fossils of ancient sequoias and bald cypresses found in Japan. He realized that some of the fossils had been incorrectly identified. Typically the sequoias and bald cypress have alternate leaves, while...

1700 W. Lakewood Ave.

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Large 2-story pyramidal-roofed Craftsman-style house with 2 tall chinmeys and overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. Other original features are a hipped donner with casement windows, a hipped wraparound porch with Craftsman posts and wood...

Se Corner Of Rigsbee & W. Corporation

Sold May 2014 for a whopping $1,150,000. 1.02 acres. This is the vacant, fenced lot across from Liberty Warehouse.

Oh Boy! Drive-In

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