304 Hillsborough Street

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FOUNTAIN HOUSE
1873, 1977
This one-story, side-gabled, vernacular house is three bays wide and single-pile. It has plain weatherboards, six-over-six replacement wood windows, and an interior brick chimney. The entrance is centered on the façade and sheltered by a shed-roofed porch with a metal roof supported by square columns. There is a projecting side-gabled bay on the left (north) elevation with a metal roof, a side-gabled wing on the right (south) elevation with a projecting shed-roofed bay on the right gable end, and a full-width, shed-roofed rear wing.

One of the earliest houses on Hillsborough Street, the house appears on the 1915 Sanborn map and was sold to Mr. Fountain in 1923. Fountain operated the house as a rental and never lived in it, though two of his children did. The house was enlarged in 1977 with the construction of a bedroom, utility room, and kitchen at the rear.

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.