1118 W. Forest Hills - James Patton Jr. House

The c. 1946 James Patton Jr. House is located in the Forest Hills Historic District in Durham, North Carolina.  The two-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house features a white-washed brick veneer and classical details including a modillion cornice, flush sheathing on the dormers, and a fluted door surround.

The house has been renovated with a new roof, updated mechanical systems, and a renovated kitchen with refinished hardwood flooring, new cabinet doors and countertops, and updated appliances.  A bay window over the sink was added in the 1970s or 1980s and has been removed with new double-hung windows installed in its place.

The project is slated to receive state Rehabilitation Tax Credits.

701 Jefferson - New Brick Warehouse

Constructed around 1930 as a tobacco auction house in South Boston, Virginia, the New Brick Warehouse is located in the South Boston National Register Historic District.

 The one-story brick building has a gabled roof behind a brick parapet and dozens of skylights light the interior.  Many six-over-six wood-sash windows remain, though windows on two elevations have been removed and the openings bricked in. The interior of the building is a single open space with wood floors, exposed brick walls, and wide timber-frame trusses that span the full width of the building.

Rehab Builders (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) will be converting the space into loft apartments with second-floor spaces being constructed in the center of the building under the higher roofline.  The building will retain original floors, exposed brick walls, and exposed roof trusses.  New windows will be re-installed where they've been previously removed.

The project is slated to receive both state and federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits.

Uptown Suburbs Historic District (High Point, NC)

The Uptown Suburbs Historic District is significant under National Register Criterion A for community development and planning.  The early-twentieth century suburbs include High Point’s first streetcar suburb, Johnson Place (1907), whose grid plan ran parallel to the streetcar 
line and attracted prominent business owners and upper-level managers.  The popularity of the development prompted the development of Roland Park (1912) and The Parkway (1915) on adjacent land west of Main Street.  Both developments employed long blocks with few intersections, 
broad streets, and wide lots to attract upper-income residents.  The Sheraton Hill development (1916) to the south featured smaller lots closer to the city center attractive to middle-income residents.  The Emerywood development (1922-1946) to the north was designed by Earle Sumner Draper and utilized wide, curvilinear streets with deep lots and irregular intersections to contribute to the park-like feel of the neighborhood.  In High Point, the Emerywood development is matched only by the 1926 Sherrod Park development, a middle-class neighborhood with curvilinear streets and planned greenspaces.  The five platted developments within the Uptown Suburbs Historic District illustrate a shift away from city center neighborhoods to the grid-plan subdivisions bordering the streetcar line and eventually to the curvilinear suburbs common in the automobile era.

The Uptown Suburbs Historic District is also significant under National Register Criterion C for architecture, for the wide variety of architectural styles represented by the residences, apartment buildings, and churches in the district. The most prevalent styles found in the district include Transitional Queen Anne-style homes, Craftsman-style bungalows, Tudor Revival- and Colonial Revival-style houses, Period Cottages, and mid-century Minimal Traditional-style and Ranch-form houses.  Less common styles employed in the district include the Prairie, Neoclassical Revival, Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, French Eclectic, Spanish Eclectic, Art Moderne, and Art Deco styles.

The Uptown Suburbs Historic District encompasses approximately sixty city blocks or portions thereof extending roughly from West Ray Avenue north to West Lexington Avenue and from Johnson Street west to Westchester Drive. The majority of the 540 primary contributing buildings are houses with several apartment buildings and churches present within the boundary, all erected during the period of significance from 1907 to 1963.  The period of significance extends from the platting of the Johnson Place development in 1907 to 1963 when the majority of the building was complete. House construction continued at a steady pace of four to five new houses a year until 1963, after which home construction decreased significantly with only four new homes constructed from 1964 to 1975.  Exceptional significance is not being claimed for 1963 as the five Colonial Revival style, Contemporary, and Ranch houses are a continuation of earlier architectural trends. 

The Uptown Suburbs Historic District was listed to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 2013. 

215-217 East Nash Street - Hackney Building

 The c. 1885-c. 1922 Hackney Building is located in the Wilson Central Business-Tobacco Warehouse Historic District in Wilson, North Carolina. The three-story brick building has two commercial storefronts on the first floor, though the interior is currently a single space. The current facade dates to c. 1922 and features a brick veneer with concrete details.  Windows on the facade have recently been replaced.  Interior spaces are largely open spaces with several small rooms partitioned off at the front and rear of the building, except at the storefront level.  The building features wood floors, plaster walls, and pressed tin ceilings with tin cornices on all three levels.
Originally constructed as a wagon manufacturing building, it was converted to a department store in the 1920s and has been operated as commercial and office space since then, though has been vacant for a number of years.

Rehab Builders (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) will be converting the space into ten apartments with commercial spaces maintained at the first-floor level. Original stairwells between the floors will be preserved, along with hardwood floors and tin ceilings. The project is slated to receive both state and federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits.





206 S. Garnett - Watkins Building


The c. 1885 Watkins Building is located in the Henderson Central Business Historic District in Henderson, North Carolina. The two-story brick building houses features two commercial spaces on the first floor, flanking a central entrance that leads to a stair to the second floor. Originally constructed as offices along accessed by a central corridor that runs the depth of the building and is lit by skylights, the second floor has been vacant for a number of years. Rehab Builders (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) will be converting the second floor space into three apartments. The original room layouts, curved walls along the corridor, windows and doors, hardwood floors and other architecture features will be retained. The project is slated to receive both state and federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits.

533 Main Street - John W. Ferrell & Company Furniture Store

The c. 1885 John W. Ferrell & Company Furniture Store Building is located in the Downtown Danville Historic District in Danville, Virginia. The three-story brick building houses features an intricate brick cornice with corbelling, hound's tooth soldier courses,
tumbled courses, and dentil-like courses. Storefronts to the two first-floor commercial spaces have been removed, but the spaces retain tin ceilings and wainscotting in the right (south) bay.

An exterior wood stair on the right side of the building leads to a second floor porch with an interior stair to the third floor. Housing a billiard hall, commercial school, cinema, artist studios, and a myriad of other uses over the years, the upper floors contain rooms of various sizes, many with fireplaces, wainscotting, and original wood floors.

Rehab Builders (based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) converted the rear of the first floor, basement, second- and third-floor spaces into apartments, retaining the front of the first floor as commercial space. Tin ceilings, wainscot, wood floors, mantels, and doors and windows were retained. The project received both state and federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits.







Hillsborough Historic District (Hillsborough, NC)


The Hillsborough Historic District was listed to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and includes all of the resources within the original square plat of the town as well as a number of properties south of the Eno River.  The nomination was updated in 1984 to include archeological context and in 1989 the period of significance was extended to 1939 to include all of the pre-World War II development in the town.  Additional surveys of the district were completed in 1995 and 2006.

The current project will provide additional documentation for the 1973 National Register listing and will include a full survey of the approximate 608 parcels within the existing boundary.  The survey will include digital photographs of all buildings, full written descriptions of each building, a digital survey file for each property, and updated paper 
files for the State Historic Preservation Office archives in Raleigh.  Additional context will be provided for development between 1939 and the early 1960s and the period of significance for the district will be extended based on this context.

The fieldwork portion of the survey has been completed and the National Register nomination is in draft form.

202 S. Guthrie - Otis Rogers House

The c. 1910 Otis Rogers House is located in the East Durham Historic District in Durham, North Carolina.  The one-story house features a triple-A roofline with wood weatherboards and imbricated shingles in the gables. The porch is supported by tapered wood posts 
on brick piers and there is a canted bay in the right gable end. The nine-over-two sash windows have pedimented surrounds.

The interior of the house has hardwood floors, wood ceilings, and five-panel doors.  The house will be fully renovated with new systems 
and a fully renovated kitchen and bathroom.

The project is slated to receive state and federal Rehabilitation Tax Credits.



2110-2114 Angier Ave. - Commercial Building

The c. 1950 Commercial Building is located in the East Durham Historic District in Durham, North Carolina. The one-story, three-bay commercial structure experienced a significant fire in January 2011, leaving it without a roof structure, interior finishes, or existing storefronts on the left two bays.

The building has been fully renovated with a new roof structure, new storefront windows to match the existing windows on the right bay, fresh exterior paint, and new signage and lighting on the exterior.

The interior has concrete floors, newly installed drywall and trim, and new electrical and mechanical systems.  Bathrooms have been installed at the rear of each commercial bay.

The project is slated to receive both state and federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits.

1410 Arnette Avenue - Lee Roy Gattis House

The c. 1927 Tudor Revival-Style house is located in the Forest Hills National Register Historic District.  The house will undergo renovations including the installation of a new roof, the expansion and rehabilitation of the master bedroom, and the
construction of a screened porch at the rear of the house.


The project is slated to review state Rehabilitation Tax Credits.