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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:firebrick'>Preservation Durham Home Tour May Saturday and Sunday – Don’t Miss It!</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Preservation Durham will offer a home tour this spring. This tour is designed to<i> highlight excellent recent renovations of historic homes </i>and to champion the preservation choices of their owners. Houses included are located all over Durham and represent a number of styles and periods. The architects, designers, and contractors responsible for the work will be showcased. Preservation can mean a lot of things and the homes on tour will demonstrate that. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Several houses on the tour have a connection to West Durham. Just to whet your interest, the tour will include the </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>“The Annexe,”</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>a wonderful conversion of an historic Sprunt Avenue garage into a thoughtful personal aerie in a garden setting. The tour includes a couple of century-old worker’s cottages. One of these, the 1905 </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Ivory and Annie Smith House</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>on Ninth Street, is one of the oldest houses in Watts-Hillandale. It was occupied by the same family for nearly one hundred years and has been lovingly renovated. There is a cluster of beautiful homes in Old North Durham and Duke Park, all of them designed by important Durham architects Rose and Rose, Each house has been saved by new owners each with their own ideas about what preservation can be. You will want to see them.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Perhaps the star of the tour will be the magnificent</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick;background:white'> </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white'>Hill House</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>on South Duke Street. Designed in the Spanish Mission Style for Durham philanthropists John Sprunt Hill and his wife Annie Watts Hill. This house has just emerged from a painstaking restoration. Seldom opened to the public, the Hill House is wonderful to see and not to be missed. John Sprunt Hill and his father-in-law George W. Watts were instrumental in building Watts and Lincoln Hospitals as gifts to Durham. They also developed the Hillandale golf course and the original subdivision along Club Boulevard. George W. Watts was Ben Duke’s partner in the Erwin Cotton Mill. Hill House and Watts Hospital were both designed by architect Bertrand Taylor. When he died, John Sprunt Hill left Hill House in trust for the benefit of women’s organizations in Durham.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Farther afield, way up off the Guess Road, is the </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Giles Latta House</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. The oldest part of this house was built in 1850 placing the house among the oldest surviving homes in Durham County. Now surrounded by modern subdivisions, the old home and five acres of the Latta farm is still surrounded by a number of ancient farm buildings including a mid-Nineteenth Century log kitchen. Neglected for years, the house was in a state of near collapse when the current owners bought and restored it.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The tour is scheduled for this weekend, May 21 and 22, from noon until 4 p.m. each day. Your ticket will include both days so you can visit all the houses at your own pace. Tour-goers will receive a tour booklet describing each house and its history. To buy tickets, click on this Eventbrite link: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-preservation-durham-home-tour-then-now-tickets-323251673457" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-preservation-durham-home-tour-then-now-tickets-323251673457</span></a> . If you prefer, you can buy your ticket during the tour at Hill House, 900 South Duke Street.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Preservation Durham has been presenting the best of Durham’s historic architecture in tours like this for more than twenty-five years. Mark your calendars. It’ll be fun! This event will conform to all covid guidelines.</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>