611 East Rosemary Street

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KENT BROWN HOUSE
c. 1915, c. 2009
This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is among the most impressive examples of the form in the district with an asymmetrical gable that allows for a second floor on the rear elevation. The house is three bays wide and triple-pile with weatherboards at the first floor, wood shingles at the second floor, one-over-one wood-sash windows throughout, and an interior brick chimney. The one-light-over-two-panel Craftsman-style door has fourteen-light sidelights and a twenty-light transom. It is sheltered by a full-width, engaged, shed-roofed porch supported by grouped square columns on stone piers with a standing-seam copper roof. A partially-inset, shed-roofed dormer on the façade has a tripartite window flanked by single windows and has a standing-seam copper roof. A low railing in front of the dormer has been removed since 1992. The side elevations feature flared walls at the base of the second floor, grouped windows at the second-floor level, and large vents in the gables. There is a one-story, shed-roofed bay on the right (east) elevation that is supported by knee brackets and flanked by paired twelve-light casement windows. An inset porch at the right rear (northeast) is supported by grouped square columns on a stone pier. The center section of the rear elevation is one story and there is a shed-roofed dormer on the rear (north) elevation and a one-story, gabled ell at the left rear (northwest) connects to a one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled garage addition. There is a one-light-over-two-panel door with six-light sidelights on the left elevation of the rear ell that is sheltered by a shed-roofed porch with full-height square columns. A one-light French door with twelve-light transom on the right elevation of the rear ell opens to a stone patio. The garage wing features two overhead doors on the left gable end, a shed-roofed dormer with four-light windows on the south elevation, and an exterior stone fireplace on the right gable end. A stone wall, matching the foundation and porch piers, extends across the front of the property. The house was built for Dr. Kent Brown, professor of Germanic languages and literature, about 1915 [Little] and it appears on the 1915 Sanborn map. The house was renovated and the rear ell and garage addition constructed between 2008 and 2010.

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.