305-307 McCauley Street
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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: Two-story frame house with rear ell added between 1932 and 1949. The house exhibits a side-gabled roof, a three-bay facade and originally a front-gabled porch. The west street-facing facade has been obscured by a two-story front-gabled brick porch addition.
In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
2015 Survey Update: The original form of this two-story, hip-roofed house is difficult to detect behind the front-gabled brick addition at the front. However, it appears to be three bays wide and triple-pile with aluminum siding, two-over-one wood-sash windows, paired on the façade, an interior brick chimney, and exposed rafter tails. A one-light door with one-light-over-two-panel sidelights is centered on the façade and several original post-on-pier porch supports remain behind the projecting second-story brick porch, including on a side-gabled porte-cochere that extends from the right (west) elevation. The brick porch has a pressed metal roof, paired fifteen-light French doors in the gable, and wide openings with soldier-course lintels and sills, all supported by full-height brick piers. A side-gabled porch wing on the left (east) elevation matches in form and detail with an aluminum-sided, front-gabled dormer facing the street. A two-story, brick-veneered wing at the rear has two-over-two windows with stone lintels and sills and gabled dormers on the right and left elevations. County tax records date the building to 1916 and a sign in front of the building names it the Washington-Price House. Were the NRHD to be updated, the building would likely be considered noncontributing due to the brick addition at the front.
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.
