CARD HOUSE

Card house 1910s.
(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)

Per the Historic Inventory:

"WW Card, the first athletic director of Trinity College, had this substantial two-story frame house constructed around 1910. As one of the earliest houses constructed in Trinity Park, this house for many years was isolated on a very large lot. According to one of the Card daughters, Mrs. Card drew the plans for the house and then her husband hired the contractors to build it. The exterior of the house [....] features plain frieze and cornerboards, Tuscan porch columns, and a trabeated entrance."


(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)


Card house, 1920s

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)


From the front porch of the card house, looking southwest towards Trinity College, 1920s

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)


Card house, 1930s.

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)


Side of the Card house, looking north on Buchanan Blvd., with the Pegram house in the background, late 1920s.

(Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection)


Card House, 10.03.09

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