215B Hillsborough Street

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HOUSE
c. 1930
Located behind the house at 217 Hillsborough, this one-story, front-gabled house is two bays wide and triple-pile. It has plain weatherboards, two-over-two horizontal-pane wood-sash windows, and a projecting, front-gabled bay on the right (north) end of the façade. The six-light-over-three-panel door on the left (south) end of the façade is sheltered by a shed-roofed porch on a square column. There is a hip-roofed porch at the rear that has been enclosed with fixed windows over a weatherboard-covered knee wall. The house appears on the 1932 Sanborn map and the windows likely date to the 1950s. The front porch was enclosed with screens in the 1990s, but has since been re-opened. The site slopes to the rear (west) revealing a basement-level entrance near the rear of the south elevation.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing 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.