714 East Franklin Street

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HOUSE
c. 1903
Largely obscured by trees and foliage, this two-story, side-gabled Queen Anne-style house is four bays wide and double-pile with a projecting, two-story, front-gabled wing on the right (west) end of the façade. The house has plain weatherboards throughout, two-over-one wood-sash windows on the first floor, eight-over-one windows on the second floor, molded lintels throughout, partial cornice returns, and two interior brick chimneys. The entrance, a one-light-over-three-panel door and there is a fixed, diamond-paned window to the left (east) of the entrance. The door and window are sheltered by a hip-roofed porch that extends the full width of the front-gabled wing and has a low gable with cornice return over the entrance. The porch is supported by grouped paneled columns and has a matchstick railing. There are tripartite windows in each gable with diamond-paned-over-two-light windows flanked by fixed diamond-light windows. A front-gabled dormer on the left (east) end of the façade has a diamond-paned-over-two-light window as well. One-story, projecting hip-roofed bays on the right and left elevations each have three windows. There is a two-story, gabled ell at the left rear (southeast) and a one-story, hip-roofed screened porch at the right rear (southwest). County tax records date the building to 1903 and it appears on the 1925 Sanborn map, the earliest map to cover this part of 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.