
The following information was included in the 2018 National Register Historic District Application for College Heights.
2108 Concord Street – Brantley and Lizzie Bass House – c. 1937
Contributing Building
This one-story, front-gabled house is three bays wide and triple-pile with German-profile weatherboards, vinyl windows, a four-light wood-sash window in the front gable, and an exterior brick chimney on the right (north) elevation that has been truncated above the roofline. The six- panel door, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a two-bay-wide, front-gabled porch supported by square posts. County tax records date the house to 1937 and the earliest known occupants are Brantley Bass, a tobacco worker, and his wife, Lizzie Bass, in 1938.
Brantley was the oldest son of S. Arthur and Hattie Page Bass, who had their home next door at 2106 Concord built at the same time as this house. In fact, construction of this house was featured in an advertisement for Mutual Building & Loan in a September 1937 issue of The Carolina Times:

Along with another house on Umstead Street, this one was featured as an example of quick, contemporary construction that could help families "rid yourself of the rent collector forever." Praising "Mr. and Mrs. Brantley Bass of Concord Street" as "another thrifty couple" taking advantage of the "building boom," the company encouraged others to follow suit.
It is unclear if the Bass family ever included children. Documents from through the early 1940s suggest Brantley followed his father's footsteps to work in the tobacco industry. At some point during or shortly after the Second World War, Lizzie and Brantley Bass moved to New York. It was on a return visit to see family in Durham that Brantley Bass passed away suddenly in 1963.