421 Hillsborough Street

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HOUSE
c. 1922
Located on a slight hill above Hillsborough Street, this one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and double-pile. It has plain weatherboards, replacement windows throughout, exposed sawn rafter tails, and two interior corbelled brick chimneys. The replacement front door, centered on the façade is sheltered by a full-width, inset porch supported by slender wood columns on brick piers. A shed-roofed dormer on the façade has exposed sawn rafter tails and four windows have replaced the original three windows. A one-story, hip-roofed wing at the right rear (northwest) has small vinyl windows and a replacement door on the left (south) elevation and an uncovered wood deck on the right (north) elevation. County tax records date the building to 1922. The house appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

AUXILIARY HOUSE
c. 1960
Two-story, hip-roofed house features a concrete-block first floor with stone veneer on the façade, weatherboards at the second floor, and vinyl windows throughout with the exception of a paired metal casement window on the first-floor north elevation. In the 2015 survey this was deemed a Noncontributing 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.