113 Kenan Street

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HOUSE
1915-1925, c. 2000
NR nomination: One-story, side-gabled frame dwelling with central interior chimney and engaged front porch. Similar to # 115.

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

2015 Survey Update: This one-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, replacement six-over-one wood-sash windows, two six-light windows on the left (north) elevation, and louvered vents in the gables. The one-light-over-two-panel door is sheltered by a full-width, engaged, shed-roofed porch supported by square columns replacing paired square posts with diagonal cross-bracing. A gabled wing at the rear connects to an L-shaped rear addition with a side-gabled section on the right (southeast) with six-over-one windows with transoms in the south gable end. A front-gabled section on the left (northeast) has six-over-one windows, a projecting shed-roofed bay on the front (west) elevation, and an inset porch supported by a square column. An interior brick chimney has been removed. County tax records date the house to 1922. This house would likely be noncontributing if the nomination was updated due to the large addition and extensive loss of historic 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.