5 Cobb Terrace

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HOUSE
c. 1925
Oriented to the east to face Cherokee Place, a street that no longer exists, this, and the other odd-numbered houses on Cobb Terrace, have their rear entrances facing the Cobb Terrace. The house is three bays wide and single-pile with weatherboards, two interior brick chimneys, and exposed purlins and rafter tails. It has nine-over-one wood-sash windows a single nine-light window in each gable, and paired nine-light windows on the north elevation. A shed-roofed porch on the left (north) end of the west elevation has a weatherboarded knee wall, wood lattice on the north end, and casement windows on the south end. There is a one-bay-deep, shed-roofed wing on the east elevation with details matching the main house. The site slopes to the rear to expose aluminum siding and vinyl windows at the basement-level of that wing. A shed-roofed screened porch is located at the left rear (northeast). County tax records date the building to 1927, though the building appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.

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.