A. M. Gilbert House

Contributors:

George Watts Carr, Sr., architect

Dates:

1920s

Location:

Durham, Durham County

Street Address:

503 Compton Pl.

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

“Claudia Roberts [Brown] et al., The Durham Architectural And Historic Inventory (1982).”

Note:

Carr designed the Tudor Revival cottage for Duke University professor A. M. Gilbert and his wife to resemble the house in which they had lived in Austria. It features applied half-timbering and authentic mortise and tenon construction framing large casement windows.