118 Mallette Street

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MORROW-NEVILLE HOUSE
1900
NR nomination: The two-story dwelling with a rectangular, massed plan and hipped roof is an update of an early three-bay Greek Revival house with bracketed cornices reminiscent of Italianate farm-houses of the latter nineteenth century. The small one-story rear ell and hipped front porch with square columns appear to be original. The property was owned at the beginning of the Civil War by a widow, Cornelia Morrow, who lost two sons in the war.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, replacement one-over-one windows, and two interior brick chimneys. The one-light-over-one-panel door, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a near-full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by square columns with an original matchstick railing. Two original twenty-one-over-one wood-sash windows remain on the left (south) elevation. A one-story, hip-roofed porch on the rear elevation has been enclosed with six-over-six windows and a hip-roofed ell projects from its right rear (northwest). County tax records date the building to 1890.

GARAGE
1910-1920
One-story, front-gabled, two-car, frame garage has vinyl siding and the two front openings have been squared off and new doors installed since 1997. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing 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.