516 East Rosemary Street
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HOUSE
c. 1910
Sited on a large lot near the northwest corner of East Rosemary and North Boundary streets, this large, two-story, hip-roofed, Colonial Revival-style house faces North Boundary and previously had a 109 North Boundary Street address. The house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, two-over-two wood-sash windows, generally paired, wide fascia and deep eaves, two interior brick chimneys, and one exterior brick chimney on the right (north) elevation. The standing seam metal roof replaced an earlier slate roof sometime between 1974 and 1992. The six-panel door, centered on the façade, has four-light-over-one-panel sidelights and a classical surround with pilasters supporting the entablature. It is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch that extends the full width of the façade and wraps around the left (south) elevation. The porch is supported by square columns and has a standing-seam metal roof. There is a one-story, five-sided bay projecting from the right elevation. A two-story, hip-roofed ell extends from the rear (west) elevation with a hip-roofed dormer on its rear elevation. It has a one-story, shed-roofed bay to its left and a one-story, hip-roofed porch that wraps around the right and rear elevations of the ell, supported by square posts with a decorative gable on the rear elevation. A low stone wall extends across the front and right sides of the property. The house appears on the 1915 Sanborn map, the earliest to record this part of Rosemary Street.
In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building..
GARAGE
c. 1920
Two-story, front-gabled, frame garage has board-and-batten sheathing with weatherboards in the gables, a 5V metal roof with exposed rafter tails, and two vehicle bays 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.
