Duke Street Cottages by Howard Building Science

Duke Street Cottages is a pocket neighborhood of eleven Zero Energy Ready Homes near downtown Granite Falls, North Carolina. With spacious front porches overlooking a shared green space, these small homes live large. Traditional architecture is skillfully blended with open floor plans and modern technology to provide the home of the future, today. The homes are built to the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home standard with the goal of achieving a net-zero energy community. A solar pavilion will provide a community gathering space and generate renewable energy with battery storage. Electric vehicle charging stations will enable residents to choose cleaner transportation and reduce travel expenses. Our goal is to provide a greater diversity of housing choice with small homes that anyone can afford, including recent college graduates with student loan debt and retirees on a fixed income. This two-bedroom, one-bathroom cottage sold for $199,900.