109 Kenan Street

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HOUSE
1915-1925, 1960s
NR nomination: One-story, side-gabled frame dwelling with altered windows and extensive rear additions.

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

2015 Survey Update: This one-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and triple-pile with asbestos siding, tripartite, asymmetrical, one-over-one wood-sash windows on the façade and left (north) elevation, an exterior brick chimney on the left elevation, and partial gable returns. The three-light door is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by tapered square posts on brick piers. The porch extends to either side as an uncovered terrace with two brick piers at the front. There are one-over-one windows on the right (south) elevation, fixed one-light windows flanking the chimney, and louvered vents in the gables. A one-story, side-gabled, concrete-block wing at the rear has vinyl slider windows, asbestos siding in the gables, and a solid wood door with three lights sheltered by a fabric awning on the west elevation. It has a gabled wing at its left rear (northeast), a shed-roofed bay at the right rear (southeast) and two open shed porches on its south elevation, each supported by square posts. County tax records date the house to 1920. This house would likely be noncontributing if the nomination was updated due to the large rear addition.

GARAGE
Modern garage was destroyed before 2013. 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.