301 Hillsborough Street
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JULIUS ALGEMON "BEN" WARREN HOUSE
1922
Impressively sited on a large lot and distinctive for its stone chimney and porch piers, this two-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile. It has plain weatherboards, nine-over-one wood-sash windows, paired on the façade, deep eaves with partial cornice returns, and an interior stone chimney. The six-panel door has one-light-over-one-panel sidelights and a three-part transom. It is sheltered by a front-gabled porch with projecting partial cornice return, supported by columns with a low stone knee wall flanking the concrete steps. A one-story, side-gabled porch on the left (south) elevation is supported by full-height stone piers and is accessed by two pairs of ten-light French doors on the left elevation. There are paired windows in the gables, an enclosed sleeping porch at the right rear (northwest) of the second floor, a gabled dormer on the rear (west) elevation, and a one-story, gabled ell at the right rear (northwest). A shed-roofed bay projects from the right (north) side of the rear ell and a hip-roofed screened porch projects from its rear elevation. A stone wall extends across the front of the property with stone piers flanking the front walkway.
In 1917, Mr. Julius Algemon “Ben” Warren bought four acres on Hillsborough Street. In 1922, he and his wife, Pattie Spurgeon, built the large, two-story frame house, under the supervision of local builder, Brodie Thompson. Mr. Warren was treasurer of the University of North Carolina from 1912 to 1952. County tax records date the building to 1922 and the house appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.
In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
AUXILIARY HOUSE
c. 1932
Located behind the main house as early 1932, this one-story, hip-roofed, house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows, and an interior brick chimney. The house has a three-light-over-three-panel door on the east elevation that is sheltered by a shed-roofed porch supported by square columns. Two additional auxiliary houses once stood behind the house, though this is the only one that remains. 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.
