214 West Cameron Avenue
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M.C.S. NOBLE HOUSE
1907; c. 1995
NR nomination: The vernacular house suggestive of Queen Anne farm house dwellings, features a hipped wrap-around porch, a weatherboarded cross-gabled main block with shingled gable ends and returns, and a transomed street-facing window on the first story. The fenestration suggests an early twentieth century construction date. One source suggests it was owned ca. 1907 by Professor and Dean of the School of Education, Marcus Cicero Stevens Noble, Dean of the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Education, whose other property, a tract along N. Columbia Street, was subdivided after World War II into what was then called "Noble Heights."
In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
2015 Survey Update: Enlarged significantly between 1992 and 1997, this front-gabled house is two bays wide and double-pile with a deep two-story, gabled rear wing. The house has replacement fiber cement siding throughout, replacing original shingled gable ends, and replacement one-over-one windows. The replacement front door is sheltered by a one-story, hip-roofed porch that wraps around the right (east) elevation and is supported by square columns. The porch shelters a one-light French door on the south elevation of a projecting, two-story, gabled wing on the east elevation. A wood ramp has been added to the left (west) elevation and a low stone wall remains at the sidewalk. The two-story gabled wing at the rear has a slightly higher roofline, wall dormers on the left elevation, and two-story, projecting gabled bays on the right elevation. It has fiber cement siding, vinyl windows, including a fixed window in each gable, and a hip-roofed rear porch supported by square columns and sheltering three one-light French doors.
If the NRHD nomination were updated this building would be noncontributing due to the very large, taller, addition, and the replacement of much of the original material.
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.
