523 East Rosemary Street

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HOUSE
c. 1930
Located at the northwest corner of East Rosemary and North Boundary streets, this two-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile. It has plain mitered weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows with vinyl windows on the rear elevation, and exterior end brick chimneys. The six-panel door has a blind fanlight, classical surround with pilasters, and a front-gabled porch supported by narrow square columns. A one-story, shed-roofed wing on the right (east) elevation has a six-panel door with classical surround on its right elevation. A one-story, shed-roofed porch on the left (west) elevation has replacement square columns and has been enclosed with screens. There are two two-story, gabled wings at the rear, each with lower rooflines than the main ridge and exposed basement levels with garage bays due to the slope of the lot. Each wing has grouped windows and there is a narrow, shed-roofed dormer on the rear of the main section of the house. According to Sanborn maps, the house was constructed between 1925 and 1932. The left-side porch, originally supported by grouped posts, was enclosed after 2002.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

GARAGE
c. 1930
Front-gabled frame garage with mitered weatherboards and batten doors on the east 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.