219 Ransom Street

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: Two-story brick-veneered house with hipped roof, gabled dormer and grouped windows on facade.

In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

2015 Survey Update: The Craftsman-style house is two bays wide and double-pile with a soldier-course watertable, six-over-one wood-sash windows, with soldier-course lintels on the first-floor windows, deep eaves with exposed rafter tails, and a gabled dormer on the façade with plain weatherboards and paired louvered vents. The entrance, on the right (south) end of the façade, is a four-light-over-four-panel door sheltered by a front-gabled porch with arched ceiling supported by large knee brackets. There is a basement-level bay window with copper roof and an entrance on the right elevation. There is an exterior brick chimney and a large, fixed window on the left (north) elevation. The north yard is sheltered by a high garden wall and the garage has been enlarged and connected to the house at the southeast corner of the house. County tax records date the house to 1927.

GARAGE
1927
One-story, side-gabled garage is connected to the garage at the rear of the apartment building at 236-238 McCauley. The garage has an open bay on the right (south) and has been enlarged with the addition of a shed-roofed wing on the façade that has plain weatherboards and an inset entrance with four-light-over-four-panel door. A shed-roofed dormer has fixed windows and there is a brick chimney on the rear (east) elevation. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCES: Kaye Graybeal, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: West Chapel Hill Historic District, Orange County OR1439 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 1998); Heather Slane and Cheri Szcodronski, 2015 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.