313 East Franklin Street
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CHARLES THOMAS WOOLEN AND ANDREW H. PATTERSON HOUSES
c. 1913, c. 1970
Constructed in the early twentieth century, the two homes were connected in 1970, resulting in the current form. The left (west) house is a two-story, side-gabled Craftsman-style house that is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting front-gabled wing on the right (east) end of the façade. The house has wood shingles, multi-light-over-one wood-sash windows, and deep eaves. The entrance, centered on the façade, has a six-panel door with twenty-light-over-one-panel sidelights. To its left is a tripartite window with a twenty-four-light-over-one window flanked by twelve-over-one windows. A shed-roofed porch spans the façade and is supported by grouped square columns. The right end of the façade has been enclosed. There is a projecting bay window on the left end of the second floor and a shed-roofed dormer with three part window above it. There is a gable dormer on the rear (north) elevation and a two-story, hip-roofed addition at the left rear (northwest). According to John Douglas Eyre’s Profiles of Chapel Hill since 1900: A Collection of Historic Notes from 1999 to 2008, the house was constructed in 1913 for Charles T. Wooten, university administrator and the namesake for Woolen Gymnasium.
The right (east) house is a two-story, hip-roofed, Craftsman-style house that is also three bays wide and double-pile. The house has wood shingles, a flared wall at the floor level of the second floor, and an interior brick chimney. It has grouped diamond-paned casement windows, exposed rafters, and exposed purlins in the front-gabled bay on the left end of the façade. The front door, centered on the façade, has a diamond-light glazed door with matching sidelights. It is sheltered by a full-width, shed-roofed porch supported by shingled, full-height piers with a shingled knee wall. There are gabled dormers on the left and right elevations, a two-story, projecting gabled bay at the rear of the right elevation, and a two-story, gable-on-hip-roofed wing with a flared second story at the rear. Eyre notes that the house was constructed in 1921 for Andrew Patterson, professor and scientist, though the house appears on the 1915 Sanborn map.
The two houses were acquired by the Chi Omega sorority in 1970 and were then connected by a six-bay-wide, two-story, truncated hip-roofed wing that has wood shingles, a flared second story, and paired diamond-paned casement windows. On each end of the façade is a one-light-over-one-panel door with matching sidelights and a three-part transom. There is a brick parapet fire wall separating the connector from the house on the right and exterior metal fire stairs on the side and rear elevations. An opaque fence constructed of brick piers with plywood panels between the piers largely obstructs the first floor of the connector wing. A low stone wall extends along the front and right sides of the property along East Franklin and Hillsborough streets.
In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing 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.
