3 Colony Court

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HOUSE
1949-1960
NR nomination: Small one-story side-gabled frame house with interior chimney.

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

2015 Survey Update: This one-story, side-gabled Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and double pile. The house has an interior brick chimney, vinyl siding, and a combination of eight-over-eight and six-over-six vinyl windows. The replacement one-light-over-two-panel front door is sheltered by a curved hood supported by knee brackets and accessed by a small brick stoop with a metal railing. There is a paired window in the right (west) gable and a single window in the left (east) gable. The house has been enlarged to the rear with a wide shed-roofed dormer. A two-story, gabled wing extends from the dormer with enclosed space at the second-floor level and an open screened porch supported by square posts at the first-floor level. Finishes on the rear addition match those of the main house. Were the NRHD updated, the house would likely be contributing.

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.