106 Kenan Street

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: One-story, front-gabled frame bungalow with symmetrical facade and massive, stuccoed porch supports.

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

2015 Survey Update: With elements of the Craftsman style, including exposed purlins and tripartite windows on the façade, this one-story, front-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile. It has a wood-shingled exterior, one-over-one wood-sash windows throughout, exposed rafter tails, and a replacement six-panel door centered on the façade. The near-full-width, front-gabled porch, with a stuccoed gable end, is supported by grouped posts with horizontal cross bracing that directly supports the roof purlins. The supports rest on tall stuccoed piers with brick trim and a curved stuccoed knee wall with a brick cap extends between the piers. The main roof and front porch roofs flare at their roof ridges forming peaks. There is a tapered stuccoed chimney on the right (north) elevation and a gabled porch, matching the front porch, extends from the right elevation, but has been enclosed with plywood. A hip-roofed wing at the rear (west) may be an enclosed porch. County tax records date the house to 1932.

SHED - GENERAL STORAGE
1950s
One-story side-gabled frame storage building has been destroyed and replaced with a prefabricated frame shed. 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.