224 McCauley Street

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NORWOOD HOUSE
1910
NR nomination: The house is thought to have been built around 1910 by Braxton Craig, W. L. Robertson and L. Lloyd and sold it to E.G. Norwood in 1913. The two-story house is a cross-gabled Queen Anne cum Victorian Gothic with a pedimented fore block featuring Gothic Revival detailing in the gables. The notable wraparound porch is decorated with sawn brackets, turned balustrade and spindlework frieze. The house is lit with glass multi-paned windows in the gables and at the first story. A one-story extension projects to the rear.

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

2015 Survey Update: Unusually narrow, this two-story house features a cross-gabled roof with front-gabled wing, one bay wide and single-pile, at the front and a side-gabled wing, two bays wide and single-pile, at the rear. The house has vinyl siding, replacement two-over-two windows, a large multipane-over-one Queen Anne-style sash on the first-story façade of the front gable, and an interior brick chimney. It retains partial gable returns and a decorative bargeboard in the front and side gables. The entrance, a one-light-over-two-panel door, is located on the left (west) end of the side-gabled wing with a matching door on the left elevation of the front-gabled wing. Both doors are sheltered by a one-story, hip-roofed porch that extends across the façade and left elevation of the front-gabled wing, terminating at the side-gabled rear wing. The porch is supported by turned posts with derby-hat brackets and has a spindle frieze and original wood railing. A hip-roofed bay at the second-floor level, above the entrances, has small nine-light windows on each of its elevations. A one-story, gabled ell extends from the rear (north) with enclosed shed-roofed porches on its east and west elevations. County tax records date the building to 1906.

GARAGE
1910s
One-story front-gabled frame garage has been destroyed since 1997. 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.