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1407 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

1401 Acadia St.

08.25.2021 (N. Levy)

2003 Otis Street

Photograph taken by Cheri Szcondronski, National Historic District Submission, January 2018 This one-story, hip-roofed bungalow is three bays wide with a one-bay-wide, gabled wing on the right (southwest) elevation, flush with the façade. The house has a stuccoed exterior, deep eaves with exposed rafter tails, and vinyl windows throughout made up...

Holman Family Cemetery

Marker for Lonnie Holman (1897-1925) leans against a tree, August 2021 (N. Levy). In a wooded area nestled against the edges of the Horton Hills and Argonne Hills subdivisions, this untended burial ground appears to be linked to the family of Dilsy Holman and her descendants. Likely born enslaved in the 1820s, she and her offspring first appear by...

215 Hood St. / Parrish Place

215 Parrish Place in 1939 (Courtesy of private family collection). Two brick apartment houses were added to a row of earlier homes along Parrish Place - on the south side of the street near its intersection with Ramseur - in the mid-1920s. According to the recollections of a resident who lived at 215 Parrish Place around 1940, "The house was...

3406 S. Alston Ave - Hargrove House

June 2005 photograph by volunteers for the Historic Preservation Society of Durham (now Preservation Durham) This is an early 1920s bungalow built on land between Alston Avenue and the Durham & Southern Railroad - not far from the rural stop near Cornwallis known as Oyama (later renamed Few). While it appears to have been built after J. A. Clark...

910 Cleveland St.

February 2021 (N. Levy) - 910 Cleveland at left, 908 at right. County property records list the two similarly configured houses just southeast of the intersection of Cleveland and Dowd as having been constructed in 1925, but other evidence indicates they appeared earlier. Residents are listed at 908 as early as the 1903-1904 City Directory, with...

908 Cleveland St.

February 2021 (N. Levy) - 908 Cleveland at right, 910 at left. County property records list the two similarly configured houses just southeast of the intersection of Cleveland and Dowd as having been constructed in 1925, but other evidence indicates they appeared earlier. Residents are listed at 908 as early as the 1903-1904 City Directory, with...

1610 High Street

126 Masondale Avenue

Photograph taken by Cheri Szondronski, National Historic Register Submission, January 2018 Among the most distinctive Ranch houses in the district, the house features a blond brick veneer on the right (west) end of the façade and an inset entrance set at a diagonal from the façade. The house is five bays wide and double-pile with a deep, gabled...