206 West University Drive

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: One-and-a-half-story, brick-veneered house with front-gabled main block and side-gabled wing. The Colonial Revival style is suggested by the six-over-nine sash windows, pedimented portico, and front door surround with sidelights and transom.

In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

2015 Survey Update: The Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and triple-pile with a brick veneer, partial cornice returns, six-over-nine wood-sash windows at the first floor and six-over-six windows at the second floor, all with soldier-course lintels and stone sills. The entrance, an eight-panel door with four-light-over-one-panel sidelights and three-part transom, is located at the left (west) end of the façade and is sheltered by a pedimented, front-gabled porch supported by grouped square columns. There is a narrow rectangular vent in the front gable and an exterior brick chimney on the left elevation. A one-story, side-gabled wing projects from the left elevation with a half-round window in its gable. A one-story, shed-roofed porch is located in front of this wing, within the ell created by the wing and the main block of the house. A screened porch in 1992, the porch is now fully enclosed with ten-light casement windows and supported by pilasters that match the columns on the front porch. A one-story, shed-roofed wing also extends from the rear of the side-gabled wing. On the right (east) elevation, a later shed-roofed dormer has plain weatherboards and paired four-light casement windows. The right elevation also features a basement-level entrance sheltered by a hipped roof and the rear of this elevation has an inset porch, which have been enclosed with siding. A one-story, gabled frame addition at the rear has German-profile weatherboards and six-light casement windows. A low stone wall extends across the front of the property. County tax records date the house to 1928.

GARAGE
1940s
One-story front-gabled frame garage was heavily renovated. The garage now features German-profile weatherboards, paired six-light casement windows in the front gable (facing University Drive), and paired fifteen-light French doors and paired double-hung windows on the left (west) elevation. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

SECONDARY HOUSE
1950s
One-story side-gabled frame secondary house is not visible from the street or aerial photos. The description in the NRHD likely refers to the secondary house at the rear of 217 Vance Street. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SECONDARY HOUSE
1950s
One-story, side-gabled, frame secondary house with plain weatherboards, vinyl windows, flush eaves, and vertical wood sheathing in the gables. The entrance, a nine-light-over-one-panel door, is centered on the façade and sheltered by a shed-roofed porch on square posts. The house has a 208 University Drive address. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCES: Kaye Graybeal, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: West Chapel Hill Historic District, Orange County OR1439 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 1998); Heather Slane and Cheri Szcodronski, 2015 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.