208 Hillsborough Street

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c. 1910, c. 2005
This two-story, front-gabled Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and triple-pile with plain weatherboards, a wide cornice with partial cornice returns, deep eaves, and two interior brick chimneys. The house has six-over-one wood-sash windows and a single one-over-one window in the front gable. The entrance, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a near-full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by tapered square columns with a sawnwork railing. A shed-roofed screened porch on the right (south) elevation, constructed after 2002, is supported by square posts and a sleeping porch at the right rear (southeast) corner of the second floor has four-light casement windows. An entrance on the left (north) elevation is sheltered by a shed roof on braces and accessed by a brick stair. Just beyond the stair is a shed-roofed carport on square posts. There is a full-width, one-story, shed-roofed wing at the rear, the north end of which was likely an inset porch, but has been enclosed with fixed and double-hung windows. A low stone wall extends across the front of the property and the driveway. County tax records date the building to 1910 and the house appears on the 1915 Sanborn map, the first to cover this part of Hillsborough Street. The side porch was added after 2002 and the rear porch may have been enclosed at this time.

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.