126 Mallette Street

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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: One-and-a-half-story bungalow with oversized dormer and engaged front porch supported by grouped square columns.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house features German-profile weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows, generally paired, partial gable returns, and an interior brick chimney. The fifteen-light French door, centered on the façade, has five-light sidelights and a three-part transom. It is sheltered by a near-full-width, shed-roofed porch supported by grouped square columns with an original matchstick railing. The front-gabled dormer, centered on the façade, has a group of three four-over-four windows. Other gables feature a group of three six-over-six windows flanked by single, square, four-light windows. A two-story, gabled wing at the left rear (southwest) intersects the main gabled roofline and there is a one-story, shed-roofed wing at the far rear (west). A one-story, side-gabled wing has been constructed on the left (south) elevation since 1997. The wing features grouped windows and finishes matching the main house.

GARAGE
post-1948
Two-story front-gabled garage with apartment above features vinyl siding and windows, and sixteen-panel overhead garage doors on the east elevation. Three gabled dormers are located on the south roof slope. 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.