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http://www.opendurham.org/buildings/610-north-buchanan-tyree-house-lacrosse-house

610 NORTH BUCHANAN - TYREE HOUSE / 'LACROSSE HOUSE'


The land on which 610 Buchanan sat was conveyed with the land on the corner of N. Buchanan and Urban in 1912 from RO Everett to Wayne V. O'Briant. O'Briant sold off one of the lots, which would become 610 N. Buchanan, to William A. Tyree and his wife Helen in September 1926 - they likely built the house on the lot soon thereafter.

William was a Durham native and a 1922 graduate of Trinity College - he would go on to become director of the "Business Division" at Duke, an instructor at Duke, and a "field spec" (not sure what that is) at Duke. Helen and William's son Fred would grow up in the house during the 1940s and 50s and become a 1961 Duke graduate, living in the house while he attended Duke.

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The quotes in the WRAL story are telling as to the unfortunate motivation - the house reminds people of something they'd like to forget, and I'm sure they'd like to obviate any future ability to point to the 'Duke Lacrosse House.'



July 12, 2010 (Is that Burness in the photo?)

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September 28, 2012 - 3:30pm

I remember Fred Tyree, a Durham High classmate who grew up in this house, telling us at a reunion that during the lacrosse trial, a national TV network reporter called to interview him simply because he had grown up there. Fred, impatient with this interview, told the reporter, "Hey.....I don't see how anybody, even Harry Houdini himself, could have sex with anyone in one of those bathrooms!"

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"Hey.....I don't see how anybody, even Harry Houdini himself, could have sex with anyone in one of those bathrooms!"