307 West Cameron Avenue

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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: Two-story side-gabled house with full-length front porch and porte-cochere. Craftsman-style features include semi-exterior chimney, shed dormer, paired windows and triangular knee braces at overhanging gable ends.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and triple-pile with aluminum siding, nine-over-one wood-sash windows, paired on the façade, a stuccoed foundation, an exterior stone chimney on the right (west) elevation, and an exposed stone foundation under the porch. The twenty-light French door, centered on the façade, has a ten-light transom and is sheltered by a full-width, shed-roofed porch that is supported by tapered wood posts on stone piers. There are arched spandrels and a low stone knee wall between the piers. The porch extends beyond the right elevation as a side-gabled porte-cochere and the porch floor extends beyond the left (east) elevation as an uncovered stone terrace. There is a shed-roofed dormer centered on the façade with three twelve-light windows and there are paired six-over-one windows in the gables. Knee brackets in the side-gables are covered in aluminum. There is a one-story, hip-roofed ell at the right rear (southwest) and a later wood ramp at the left rear (southeast) of the ell. County tax records date the building to 1922.

GARAGE
1915-1925
One-story frame garage has been destroyed. 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.