206 North Boundary Street

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HENRY MCGILBERT WAGSTAFF HOUSE
1926, c. 1990
Impressively sited on a large lot at the northeast corner of North Boundary and East Rosemary streets, this two-story, truncated-hipped-roofed, Colonial Revival-style house is oriented to North Boundary Street with a full-depth porch facing the side lawn and East Rosemary Street. The house is three bays wide and triple-pile with weatherboards, cornerboards with caps, deep eaves, a wide cornice, and two interior brick chimneys. It has twelve-over-twelve wood-sash windows on the first floor and eight-over-twelve windows on the second floor. The six-panel door has three-light-over-one-panel sidelights and a three-part transom. It is sheltered by a one-bay-wide, flat-roofed porch supported by grouped columns with a railing at the roofline. A one-story, full-depth porch on the right (south) elevation is supported by columns, has a standing-seam metal roof, and is accessed by ten-light French doors with one-light transoms. A one-story, hip-roofed screened porch on the left (north) elevation is supported by grouped columns. There is a two-story, hip-roofed ell with matching details at the rear (east) and a one-story, hip-roofed wing at the left rear (northeast). Projecting from the one-story wing is a modern gabled breezeway enclosed with paired French doors with fanlights. The breezeway leads to a modern, hip-roofed, two-car garage with weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows on the west elevation, and two overhead garage doors on the north elevation. A stone wall extends along the edge of the property at Boundary and Rosemary streets. The house was constructed by Brodie Thompson for history professor Henry McGilbert Wagstaff in 1926 after a previous house on the site was moved to 214 North Boundary in 1925 [Little]. The garage wing is present in the 1992 survey photos.

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.