501 East Rosemary Street

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EPISCOPAL RECTORY
1915, c. 1930, 1980s
This two-story, clipped-side-gabled house is three bays wide and triple-pile with distinctive, diamond-paned casement windows on the façade. The house has replacement fiber-cement shingles, one-over-one windows on the side elevations and in each gable, and an interior brick chimney. The two-light-over-four-panel door is sheltered by a gabled roof on large knee brackets. To the right (east) of the entrance, a projecting, flat-roofed bay has diamond-paned windows on each side. There is a one-story, flat-roofed porch on the right elevation that, while originally a screened porch on shingled piers, has been fully enclosed with grouped casement windows and shingled walls installed between 1974 and 2002. A terrace on the left (west) elevation is sheltered by a wood pergola and enclosed with wood lattice. There is a hip-roofed dormer at the right rear (northeast) and a one-story, shed-roofed wing at the left rear (northwest). The house appears on the 1915 Sanborn map, the earliest to record this part of Rosemary Street; according to Sanborn maps, the front gable over the entrance and a porch at the left rear were added between 1925 and 1932.

Edit: The building has replacement cedar shakes, not fiber-cement shingles.

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.