204 Glenburnie Street

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HOLMES-KOCH HOUSE
c. 1913, c. 1980
A rare example of the Shingle style in Chapel Hill, this house is seven bays wide and double-pile with a wide, front-gabled roof that is two-and-a-half-stories at the center and extends down to cover one-story wings on the sides. The house has wood shingles, diamond-light-over-one-light wood-sash windows, and diamond-light casements in the front gable. The center two bays project slightly under the main gable, which is supported by exposed purlins and has exposed sawn rafter tails. On the left (north) side of the façade, the diamond-light-over-two-panel door is sheltered by a two-bay-wide, front-gabled porch supported by square columns with arched spandrels and a low matchstick railing. An inset porch on the right (south) end of the façade has been enclosed with one-over-one wood-sash windows since 1974. Above the enclosed porch, on the right elevation, is a hip-roofed dormer. Behind (east) and partially obscured by the enclosed porch is a one-story, projecting shed-roofed bay and a shed-roofed wall dormer at the second-floor level. On the left elevation there is a wide hip-roofed wall dormer and a second entrance; a nine-light-over-two-panel door is sheltered by a gabled porch on square posts. There is a one-story, hip-roofed wing at the rear, a one-story, parapet-roofed addition at the left rear (northeast), and an uncovered wood deck. A low stone wall extends along the front and right sides of the house. The house was built by John S. Holmes, state forester, about 1913, and from 1924 to 1944, was owned by Frederick Henry Koch [Little]. A plaque on the house indicates that it is the c. 1913 Holmes-Koch House and Sanborn maps confirm its existence by 1915.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

GARAGE
c. 2007
One-and-a-half-story, front-gabled garage has plain weatherboards at the first-floor level with three garage bays on the south elevation and three one-over-one wood-sash windows on the east and west elevations. There are wood shingles in the gables and hip-roofed dormers on the east and west elevation. Gables and dormers each have triple, diamond-paned-over-one-light windows. Aerial photos indicate that the garage was constructed between 2006 and 2008. In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCE: Heather Wagner Slane, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, Orange County, OR1750 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2015), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.