Morehead Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary increase extends Durham's Morehead Hill neighborhood by roughly eight blocks to the west and south, taking in houses along Arnette, Vickers, Yancey, Parker and Wells streets. Most were built between about 1905 and 1955 and remain in residential use. The earliest are modest one-story Queen Anne-style tri-gable houses and pyramidal cottages, many built as speculative or rental housing. Later phases brought brick and frame bungalows, including a row of six on Vickers Avenue, along with Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival houses, Colonial Revival homes, Minimal Traditional houses and a few early Ranch houses. One Colonial Revival house on Arnette Avenue was built about 1928 for architect Thomas C. Atwood and designed by his partner Arthur C. Nash, the only house Nash designed in Durham. The district is recognized for its architecture and for showing how the neighborhood developed over about fifty years. It includes 119 contributing and 41 noncontributing resources.