206 West Cameron Avenue

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POOL-HARRIS HOUSE
1870
NR nomination: The two-story three-bay hipped Greek Revival house exhibits a two-story rear extension, a hipped full-gallery porch, double-leafed floor-length windows and a sidelit entry. The property contains original stone gate posts and remnants of stone walls. The style suggests a probable antebellum origin, its depth recalling early I-form construction. It was owned by Solomon Pool in the early 1870s (see Pool-Harris-Patterson House), who sold it ca. 1875 to Dr. Thomas W. Harris a physician, pharmacist, and proprietor of a drug store at the comer of Franklin and Henderson Streets, who was founder, first Dean and one of three original faculty members of the UNC Medical School, inaugurated in 1879. He was also a captain in the confederate army.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house retains its original form and interior brick chimneys. It has been covered with aluminum siding and has replacement vinyl windows throughout, though retains double-leaf eight-light-over-two-panel doors on the first-floor façade, flanking a replacement six-panel door with four-light-over-one-panel sidelights. The near-full-width, hip-roofed front porch is supported by square columns and is accessed by a curved stone front step. The near-full-width, two-story, shed-roofed rear wing has matching finishes and an exterior metal fire stair on the right (east) elevation.

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.