306 Henderson Street

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c. 1910, c. 1970
This one-and-a-half-story, pyramidal-roofed house is somewhat unusual due to the shed-roofed dormers projecting from each elevation. The house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, two-over-two wood-sash windows, and an interior brick chimney. The one-light-over-two-panel door is sheltered by a full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by tapered square columns on brick piers. An original one-story, hip-roofed wing at the rear is one room deep and has two-over-two wood-sash windows. A later, shed-roofed wing at the rear has vertical plywood sheathing and one-over-one windows. It extends beyond the right (south) elevation and connects to a flat-roofed carport with exposed rafter tails that is supported by square posts. The rear of the carport has a storage area enclosed with vertical plywood sheathing. The house appears on the 1915 Sanborn map, the first map to record this part of Henderson Street. The rear addition and carport were likely added about 1970.

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.