301 Henderson Street

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HOUSE
c. 1912, c. 1930, 1950s
Constructed as a one-story, front-gabled house with side-gabled wing, the house was two bays wide and triple-pile with a decorative gable on the left (south) elevation. A single-pile, hip-roofed wing was added to the right (north) elevation about 1930 resulting in the current four-bay-wide façade with front gables on each end of the side-gabled roof. The house has asbestos siding, partial cornice returns, an interior brick chimney, replacement windows throughout, and diamond-shaped vents in the gables. The main entrance, a twelve-light-over-one-panel door is located on the left end of the façade with a four-light-over-one-panel sidelight on its right. On the right end of the façade is a one-light-over-three-panel door. A one-story, hip-roofed porch spans the entire façade and wraps around the left elevation supported by square columns with a matchstick railing with diamond motif. A portion of the porch on the left elevation has been enclosed. A flat-roofed wing, constructed after 1949, projects from the left elevation, just in front of the side-gabled rear wing, and has a one-light-over-two-panel door sheltered by a gabled roof on brackets and a railing at the roofline. A shed-roofed wing extends across the rear (west) elevation beyond the side-gabled wing. County tax records date the house to 1912 and it appears on the 1915 Sanborn and was enlarged to the right (north) by 1932.

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.