625 East Franklin Street

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HOUSE
c. 1930, c. 1950
Set far back from East Franklin Street, this two-story, side-gabled Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, eight-over-eight wood-sash windows with molded lintels on the first-floor façade, and exterior, gable-end brick chimneys. The six-panel door, centered on the façade, has four-light-over-one-panel sidelights and is sheltered by a three-sided, hip-roofed portico supported by columns. A canted projecting bay is located above the entrance, resting on the porch roof, and has four-over-four wood-sash window on each side. A one-story, hip-roofed porch on the right (east) elevation was enclosed after 1949 with grouped six-over-six windows. An entrance on the left (west) elevation is sheltered by a small shed roof. The house first appears on the 1932 Sanborn map, the first map to cover this part of Franklin Street. It shares a garage with the house at 623 East Franklin Street.

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.