1971 2010ish

Tiny Grocery, 1971 (Durham County Library) Tiny Grocery, 1971 (Durham County Library) Tiny Grocery and 608 Burlington Ave.,1971 (Durham County Library) 2006

Craftsman cottage with typical porch plinths and bracketing, worrisomely located near the Durham Rescue Mission - no friend of historic preservation, with a religious appetite for expansion.

(DC tax office) Nicely detailed Craftsman cottage with grouped posts under saddle haunches. Worrisomely located near the Durham Rescue Mission - no friend of historic preservation, with a religious appetite for expansion.

1999 An impressively detailed house that predated the others on this side of the block by several decades. Richmond Allen acquired the land from D (?T) Vickers in 1887 (DB 9, P381.) I can barely make out the details on the handwritten deed; the house most likely dated from the 1890s. Allen was a carpenter, and may have built the house himself...

Though county property records date the house at 615 Grant to 1920, the structure resembles those appearing on Sanborn Maps at this location back to 1913. Land here at the eastern edge of Hayti was purchased by William T. and Janie Sears Trice from Vickers heirs as early as 1894. Members of their family would remain here for decades after William...