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RICHARD HARKRADER (1946-)

Harkrader was born in Bristol VA. He graduated from Cornell with a degree in architecture. He was one of the first energy-efficient construction and passive solar designers in Durham and built many Contemporary and Modernist dwellings during the 1980s. He start New Morning Solar Realty that built and managed 45 passive solar apartments. Bio and house list adapted from OpenDurham. Special thanks to Carie Chesarino.


1974 - The Richard and Lonna Harkrader House, 1320 Shepherd Street, Durham NC. Still owners as of 2022.


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1976 - The June Johnson House, 1215 Shepherd Street, Durham NC. Deeded to Kim Mackay Johnson.


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1976 - The Wib and Dub Gulley House, 1219 Shepherd Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1989 to Daphne Lucille McMurrer and Mark Kallison Dreyfus. Sold in 1993 to Allison M. Bluj and Cynthia M. Sortisio. Sold in 2000 to Daniel E. Chapman and Lisa K. Seago. Sold in 2014 to Fay-Wei Li and Yu-Hsuan Liu. Sold in 2018 to Paul L. Wilshire.


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1976 - The Robert A. and Donna S. Slade House, 125 West Woodridge Drive, Durham NC. Sold in 1985 to Harold Basowitz. Deeded in 2000 to Anne Basowitz. Deeded in 2001 to Joseph and Deborah Karen Neev. Sold in 2002 to Francis Michael and Deborah Joy Davey. Sold in 2021 to Pedro L. Perez and Peter P. Repetti III.


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1977 - The John D. and Carolyn L. Coie House, 123 West Woodridge Drive, Durham NC. Sold in 1982 to James A. Blumenthal and Daphne C. McKee. Sold in 1985 to Daryl B. and Shirley C. Jenkins, still owners as of 2022.


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1977 - The Daniel and Susan E. Barco House, 1610 High Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1984 to Steven L. and Jane Smith Haughton. Sold in 2002 to Shelagh Kenney. Sold in 2010 to Douglas K. Rumble.


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1977 - The Rosalind Coleman House, 2644 University Drive, Durham NC. Sold in 1986 to John William and Marguerite C. Stanback. Sold in 1992 to Richard A. Birgel Jr. Sold in 1995 to James Walter Farmer Jr. Sold in 2015 to Katie and Kyle Hanschke. Sold in 2018 to Richard Strakosch.


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1977 - The Gary Lee and Martha T. Deaton House, 2646 University Drive, Durham NC. Deeded in 1981 to Martha R. Thompson. Sold in 1988 to Howard Randolph Straughan III. Sold in 2011 to Vince and Mei Thai. Sold in 2012 to Kevin B. Davis. Top photo by Gary Kueber, Open Durham.


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1978 -The Edward A. Johnson House, 2206 Wilshire Drive, Durham NC. Sold in 1988 to Kathleen Ross and Daniel B. Szyld. Sold in 1992 to William Lee Richardson. Sold in 2016 to Meghan Corroon and William Matthew Palmer IV. Sold in 2018 to Julie C. and Ryan D. McCormick.


1978 - 709 Yancey Street, Durham NC. Managed by New Morning Realty until it sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1978 - 1101 Wells Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1979 to Mark T. Hellman.


1979 - 1308 Hill Street, Durham NC. Duplex managed by New Morning Realty until it sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


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1979 - 1107 Wells Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1979 to Robert H. and Christine M. Brinkmeyer. Sold in 1986 to Anselmo Adalio Lastro and Mary Elsa Mace. Sold in 1991 to Eric C. and Susan Dalsheimer Poncelet. Sold in 2001 to Gilford B. and Treva P. Fitts.


1979 - 1404 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1980 to George Mahon Holt. Sold in 1993 to Chadmark Lee Schoen.


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1979 - 1408 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1980 to Christine Annette Judge and Marguerite Judge Burns. Sold in 1984 to Cynthia S. Payne and Susan R. Marcinkus. Sold in 1998 to Owen Flanagan. Sold in 2005 to Avice O'Connell and Timothy O'Connor. Sold in 2010 to Brian M. Schneiderman. Addition built in 2016 by Coby Linton Architects and Pruitt Building Company.


1980 - 705 Cobb Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1980 to Stephen L. Darwall and Rosemarie T. Hester. Sold in 1984 to Mary N. Eldridge and Stuart A. Rosenfeld. Sold in 1992 to Robert M. and Jennifer C. Perkins. Sold in 1995 to Rae Beno. Sold in 2001 to G. Daniel Bowling. Sold in 2004 to Tucker Prescott and Kathleen W. Bartlett.


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1980 - 701 Cobb Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1980 to Joyce Ann Copeland and Russell Thomas Giesler. Sold in 1985 to Hariet B. and Geoffrey G. Sayre McCord. Sold in 1998 to Gair B. McCullough and Richard S. Larson. Sold in 2005 to William Henry Martin Young. Sold in 2009 to Libby Webb and Gary L. Ander.


1980 - 1205 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Multi-family home managed by New Morning Realty until the units sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1981 - The William Ben and Lillian Paris Spiller House, 1206 Hill Street, Durham NC. Ben Spiller was a carpenter for New Morning Construction.


1981 - 1412 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1981 to Ralph M. Byers and Susan H. MacDonald. Sold in 1990 to Barton J. and Laura M. Mann. Sold in 1992 to Katayoun Tabrizi. Sold in 2007 to Sarah Dodge Anthony.


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1981 - 1306 Bivins Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1981 to John C. Heffner and Janine R. DeWitt-Heffner. Sold in 1984 to John Hampton and Susanna C. Bachmann. Sold in 1989 to Sharon Sandomirsky. Sold in 1991 to Ann E. McKown. Sold in 2003 to Jean Vayo Hamilton. Sold in 2009 to Jehangir Malegam and Catherine Mathers.


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1981 - 1209 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1981 to C. McLean and Helen Lanier Rand Fonvielle. Deeded in 1992 to Frederic and Lanier R. Blum. Sold in 1995 to Christoph and Tammy S. Spoerri. Sold in 2004 to Debra Kent and Jamie A. Lamkin. Sold in 2015 to Jessica Dara Bloom.


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1981 - 1207 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Multi-family home managed by New Morning Realty until the units sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1981 - 1211 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1982 to Joseph J. Pfister and R. Jane Burwell. Sold in 1987 to Kevin Thomas McClain and Donna Read King.


1982 - 1215 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1982 to Mary E. Berman. Sold in 1985 to Michael J. and Mary Ende Matros. Sold in 1987 to Keith T. Brown. Sold in 1988 to John W. Waddell. Sold in 1994 to Jerome Witschger. Sold in 1998 to Carol Ann Childs. Deeded in 2003 to Keval Kaur Khalsa.


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1982 - 1520 Kent Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1984 to James Victor and Christy Myers Gudaitis. Sold in 1987 to John E. R. Staddon. Sold in 1996 to Roxanne Quimby. Sold in 1999 to William T. Marcheck and Margit A. Bucher.


1982 - 1213 Carroll Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1982 to Ronald Richard Butters. Sold in 1988 to Alan Baxter Teasley. Sold in 2003 to Paul J. Stinson and Sean Michael McCarthy. Sold in 2007 in Grace K. Wakeman.


1982 - 802 Arnette Avenue, Durham NC. Multi-family home managed by New Morning Realty until the units sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1983 - 209 Dacian Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1983 to Dorothy Pendle Brock. Sold in 2009 to Daniel Conrad. Sold in 2016 to Benjamin James and Christa Twyford Gibson.


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1983 - 211 Dacian Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1983 to Lynne Pierpont and Thomas Charles Winter III. Sold in 1985 to Robert S. Kiel. Sold in 1987 to Timothy J. Sperry and M. Lynne Tirrell. Sold in 1993 to Brian Hayes. Sold in 2010 to Nora M. Wilson and Paul Anthony Raoul Morales Dennis. Sold in 2017 to David L. Neal.


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1983 - 1515 Moreland Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1983 to Marilyn M. Peterson and Linda L. Marco. Sold in 1989 to Helen E. Clarke and Marie C. McIntyre.


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1983 - 207 Dacian Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1983 to W. Paul Pulley Jr. Sold in 1988 to Danny Wayne Durning. Sold in 1989 to Athena M. Counides. Deeded in 2018 to Gregory K. Jenkins.


1984 - 213 Dacian Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1984 to Samir I. and Susan E. Abed. Sold in 1991 to Elisabeth Barrett Nadler. Sold in 1998 to Jacqueline Hermans.


1984 - 1700 Merrimac Street, Durham NC. Multi-family home managed by New Morning Realty until the units sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1985 - 217 Dacian Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1985 to Meredith A. Thornton. Sold in 1990 to Randall C. Dodd. Sold in 1995 to James L. Yamin. Sold in 2002 to Negar Mottahedeh. Sold in 2008 to Jeffrey M. Shaw. Sold in 2018 to Diogo Freire and William Mardre Bobbitt.


1985 - The Mary E. Berman House, 1307 Bivins Street, Durham NC. Sold in 1989 to Barbara Jean Burns. Sold in 1993 to Joan Kofodimos and Kyle Dover. Sold in 1995 to Joanna C. and Franklin B. Swanson.


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1985 - 1306 Hill Street, Durham NC. Managed by New Morning Realty until sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1985 - 1310-1312 Hill Street, Durham NC. Apartments managed by New Morning Realty until sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust. Sold in 2007 to Main Ridge Properties LLC.


1985 - 1314 Hill Street, Durham NC. Apartments managed by New Morning Realty until sold in 2007 to Abundant Earth Realty, LLC. Sold in 2019 to Contributing Structure LLC.


1986 - 2305 Morehead Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1986 to Joseph E. Sickles II, still owner as of 2022.


1986 - 2309 Morehead Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1986 to Jeanette M. and Freddie Putney Jr. Sold in 2000 to Kurt H. Cumiskey and Linda Varosi, still owners as of 2022.


1986 - 1004 Norwood Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1986 to Steven T. Pulling and Ronette L. Kolotkin. Deeded in 2008 to Ronette. Transferred in 2019 to her trust.


1986 - 1000 Norwood Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1986 to Daniel B. Szyld. Sold in 1989 to Robert A. and Marya J. McNeish Robinson, still owners as of 2022.


1987 - 1301 Rosedale Avenue, Durham NC. Multi-family home managed by New Morning Realty until sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1987 - 1305 Rosedale Avenue, Durham NC. Multi-family home managed by New Morning Realty until sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


1987 - 1501 West Lakewood Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1987 to Ursula Goebels. Sold in 1998 to Charles W. Ebel, still owner as of 2022.


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1987 - 1505 West Lakewood Avenue, Durham NC. Sold in 1987 to Joanna C. Smith. Sold in 2018 to Benjamin J. Stines and Sandra K. Davidson.


1987 - 811 Arnette Avenue, Durham NC. Triplex managed by New Morning Realty until the units sold in 2007 to the Durham Land Trust.


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1988 - 907A-D North Mangum Street, Durham NC. Four attached townhomes, two shown above.


Sources include: OpenDurham; Richard Harkrader.