507 North Street
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MORGAN AND ELIZABETH GREY VINING HOUSE
c. 1929
Oriented sideways on the site, with the façade facing west, this one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled house has deep, flared eaves and partial cornice returns. The house is three bays wide and double-pile with wood shingles, ten-light wood casement windows, and an exterior brick chimney on the right (south) elevation. The paneled door, centered on the façade, has a classical surround with four-light sidelights. There are three dormers on the façade, each with asbestos siding and one-over-one windows. There are paired eight-light casements with a fanlight in the right gable and a small inset porch at the right rear (southeast). The house appears on the 1932 Sanborn map.
In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
GARAGE
1980
A one-story-with-basement garage northwest of the house has shingles, one-over-one windows flanking paired one-light French doors on the south elevation, and skylights on the north elevation. Three hip-roofed dormers on the south elevation have vertical sheathing and a single one-over-one window each. There are small Palladian windows in the gables and a basement-level garage at the west elevation. 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.
