2023 Preservation Durham Home Tour: "Then & Now, Part 2"

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) 1-story front-gabled Craftsman-style house with German siding, 4-over-1 vertical sash windows, exposed rafter tails, and a 2-bay gabled porch with classical columns and a wood railing. 1937 SM. 1955 CD: Thurman Ellis owner/occupant.

This substantial brick bungalow has side and front- gabled roofs and an engaged porch with a dentil frieze, brick posts, and a solid brick railing with ramped concrete coping. It was owned by DW Brown, who owned a dry cleaners on Driver Street for many decades.