2-story side-gable Colonial Revival-style house with exterior end chimney, left side 1-story wing, a door with pilasters and a blind fanlight, and 6-over-6 sash windows. At right is a recessed attached garage. Tyrie Van Arsdall, with the U.S. Navy, was the occupant in 1950.
From the National Register nomination form of 2005, completed by M. Ruth Little
2-story side-gable Colonial Revival-style house with exterior end chimney, left side 1-story wing, a door with pilasters and a blind fanlight, and 6-over-6 sash windows. At right is a recessed attached garage. Vinyl siding. Tyrie Van Arsdall, with the U.S. Navy, was the occupant in 1950. [1950 CD]
The following information comes from the City Directories and general web searching:
| Year | Occupant(s) | Occupation(s) | Other information | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Ann Sophia "Mutti" Van Arsdall | Clyde James Van Arsdall, Jr. | US Navy Commander | Clyde was in the US Navy and eventually served as a Rear Admiral Upper Half. He received the Navy Cross"for extraordinary heroism and distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the Destroyer U.S.S. ANTHONY (DD-515), in action against the enemy from 25 through 27 May 1945, at Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands." The Van Arsdalls lived at 426 Carolina Cir from February 1966 through August 1970. | |
| 1952 | Nell A. Perkins | nurse | Nell worked at Duke Hospital. | ||
| 1954 | Eleanor (Montgomery) Bradsher | Arthur Brown Bradsher, Jr. | physician | Arthur worked at 1200 Broad St, after having earned degrees from Duke (1936) and McGill (1941). His father was a turn-of-the-century, dominating Duke University baseball pitcher nicknamed "King of the Southern Diamond", founded Duke's Order of the Tombs, and became executive vice president of the Imperial Tobacco Company, located in Montreal. Arthur's brother, Charles, was a Duke chemistry professor for 45 years. Eleanor was born in Toronto, worked for the Dean of the Duke School of Nursing, and was director of sales at the downtown Durham Hotel. | |
| 1965 | (vacant) | ||||
| 1966 | Jack Shaber | ||||
| 1967 | Anita M. Kitchen | Ronald E. Kitchen | manager | Ronald worked at Profexray, a Division of Littleton Industries, located at 803 Ramseur St. | |
| 1970 | Susie L. Greeman | William L. Greeman | research assistant | William was a deep sea diver in the US Navy, became supervisor of the Hyperbaric Program at Duke Hospital where he worked from 1963-1984, and passed away in 2013. | |
| 1971 | (vacant) | ||||
| 1972 | Mrs Pauline J. Mesmer | clerk/typist | Pauline worked at Duke Hospital. | ||
| 1973 | Sandra L., Elizabeth, and Susan L. Greeman | William L. Greeman | ward clerk, instructor, employee | animal caretaker supervisor | Elizbeth was an instructor at Duke Hospital, Susan was an IBM employee, and William continued to work at Duke Hospital. |
| 1974 | Elizabeth C. Greeman | William L. Greeman | engineer | William was listed as an engineer at Duke Hospital in 1974. | |
| 1975 | Carol G. Greeman | William L. Greeman | |||
| 1977 | Barbara Lawson | Michael J. Lawson | manager | Michael managed the Chik-Fil-A in the South Square Mall, operated a Chik-Fil-A franchise in the Triangle for at least thirty years between 1975-2006, and had three children also work for the company. Barbara was a Durham school teacher for at least 20 years. | |
| 1979 | Sally Bethune | Stuart Burney Bethune | employee | Sally worked at the Girl Scouts of America, while Stuart worked in the financial aid office at UNC and co-founded the Orange County Living Wage Program in 2015 before passing away in 2017. | |
| 1987 | John Tunnicliff Soper | physician | John worked at Duke and was an OB-GYN at the UNC School of Medicine. | ||
| 1991 | Michael Cooke | employee | Michael worked at IBM. | ||
| 1993 | Cathy H. Cooke | Michael Cooke | |||
| 1996 | Katrina Kelly | ||||
| 1998 | John Pless, Jr. | John's mother, Margaret, operatedClaire's Cafe at 2701 Chapel Hill Rd (the Bartlett Mangum House) from 1983 until the early 1990s. The Pless family owned the building until selling it in 1999, at which point it became the Four Square Restaurant. | |||
| 2003 | Lucy D. Pless | ||||
| 2004 | John Pless and John Pless, Jr. | James R. Haviland | upper management | James worked at Bizdevguy LLC. | |
| 2005 | Denise W. Haviland | James R. Haviland | |||
| 2008 | Cheryl Haviland | James R. Haviland | |||
| 2011 | Dr. Ashley F. Logan | Willis Logan | pediatrician | Duke Divinity student | |
Robby Poore, descendant of the Van Arsdalls, has posted some fabulous mid-century photos of Carolina Circle, and Durham in general, on his personal Flickr page. There are several albums (1948, 1949, 1950, 1950-1954, 1957, 1968, 1969, and 1970). Individual images of 421 Carolina Circle include the front yard, side yard, front stoop, and side walk.