220 McCauley Street
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THOMAS STROWD HOUSE
1910
NR nomination: The two-story Queen Anne house with high hipped roof, interior chimneys and front cross-gable was built on the western parcel of two lots purchased by Thomas W. Strowd from David McCauley in 1901. It resembles 219 McCauley with its gabled main block and chamfered porch posts. The patterned-glass gable window and two-story window bay on the west are distinctive feaures.
In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
2015 Survey Update: Among the most decorative houses on the block, this two-story, hip-roofed, Queen Anne-style house is two bays wide and double-pile with projecting two-story gabled bays on the right (east) end of the façade as well as at the right rear and left (west) elevations. The right-elevation gable is canted with drip molding at the roofline. The house has plain weatherboards, two-over-two wood-sash windows, and a wide fascia with partial gable returns. There is a decorative diamond-paned window in the front gable and louvered vents in the side gables. The entrance, a one-light-over-three-panel door with one-light transom, is located on the left end of the façade in a one-story bay that is flush with the projecting front gable. The entrance is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch supported by chamfered posts with sawn brackets that wraps around the right and left elevations, abutting the projecting two-story bays. The left side of the wraparound porch has been enclosed and has six-over-six windows. There is a six-over-six window centered ont eh second-floor façade. A one-story, gabled wing at the right rear (northeast) has two-over-two windows, an entrance on the right elevation, and an exterior brick chimney. There is a one-story, shed-roofed wing at the left rear (northwest).
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.
