300 Glandon Drive
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WILLIAM P. AND TREVA RICHARDSON HOUSE
1939
Two-story brick Colonial Revival with recessed side bay entrance, truncated upper story with plain siding and upper windows in wall dormers, six-over-six sash windows, lunette windows in gables, exterior and interior brick chimneys and original one-story brick side wing. Built for William P. and Treva Richardson by contractors Willman and Horner, from a design by architect George Hackney of Durham. William was a professor of public health at UNC.
The house appears largely unaltered from the 1993 survey with the exception of the construction of a one-story, gabled wing on the left (east) elevation. The house retains original brick veneer, siding at the second-floor level, classical door surround, and six-over-six wood-sash windows on the side and rear elevations, though façade windows have been replaced. A one-story wing on the right (west) elevation has brick corbelling at the top of the wall. One bay window on the left (east) elevation was removed for the construction of a gabled hyphen that connects to a side-gabled wing with brick corbelling to match the west wing. There is a shed-roofed dormer on the rear elevation. County tax records date the building to 1939 and the house appears on the 1949 Sanborn map. A large addition is planned for the west elevation of the house.
The contributing status reflected in the database was assigned to the building as part of the 1993 National Register nomination. Given the proposed addition, were the NR nomination to be formally updated, this property may be considered non-contributing.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
SOURCE: M. Ruth Little, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District, Orange County, OR0709 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2013, via HPOWEB, accessed 8 Jan. 2020), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office; Heather Wagner Slane, 2013 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.
