112 Kenan Street

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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: Somewhat altered one-story side-gabled frame dwelling with interior chimney, stone foundation.

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

2015 Survey Update: Altered with the enclosure of the left two-thirds of the front porch, this one-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and double-pile with vinyl siding, vinyl windows, an interior brick chimney, and two skylights on the front roof slope. The full-width, engaged, shed-roofed porch is supported by tapered wood posts on granite piers, though the left (south) two bays of the porch have been enclosed, a new door installed, and the porch roof extended as a shed roof supported by square posts that shelters the granite front steps and knee walls. There are tripartite windows in each gable. There is a gabled ell at the left rear (southwest) and a shallower ell at the right rear (northwest) that connects to a later gabled addition with triangular windows that follow the gabled roofline. County tax records date the building to 1920. Were the NRHD updated, the house would likely be non-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.