300 Tenney Circle

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HOUSE
c. 1942, 1980s, c. 2002
On a large lot at the entrance to Tenney Circle, this two-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting, two-story, front-gabled wing on the left (north) end of the façade. The house has plain weatherboards, eight-over-eight wood-sash windows, an interior brick chimney, and an exterior brick chimney in the right (south) gable end. The entrance, centered on the façade, has a three-light-over-four-panel door with classical surround with fluted pilasters. It is sheltered by a deep, hipped roof that extends across the right two bays of the façade. The left end was enlarged after 1992 to be a truncated-hip-roofed porch supported by square columns. The projecting wing has board-and-batten at the second-floor level, which overhangs the first floor slightly with finials at each end, and wall dormers on the side elevations. An original one-story, gable-on-hip-roofed wing on the right elevation projects beyond the façade and is one bay wide and four bays deep.

On the left elevation, an original garage was replaced between 1974 and 1992 with a two-story, side-gabled hyphen that connects to a two-story, gable-on-hip-roofed garage wing. The garage wing has overhead doors on the rear (east) elevation, an enclosed, inset second-floor porch at the northwest corner that has paired six-over-six windows with paneled aprons, and a one-story, shed-roofed brick storage wing on the left elevation. A one-story, hip-roofed porch in front of the two-story hyphen has also been enclosed with six-over-six windows separated by pilasters. A later, two-story, gable-on-hip-roofed wing also extends from the rear elevation of the main section of the house. County tax records date the building to 1942 and the house appears on the 1949 Sanborn map. The garage wing and hyphen were constructed between 1974 and 1992 and the rear wing was added about 2002.

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.