317 McCauley Street

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HOUSE
1932-1948
NR nomination: Two-story brick-veneered house altered to apartment building with hipped roof.

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

2015 Survey Update: The building is three bays wide and four-pile with vinyl windows, with soldier-course lintels, throughout. The replacement front door, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a flat-roofed porch supported by square columns with a replacement railing. A six-panel door centered on the second-floor façade opens to the porch roof. There is an exterior brick chimney on the right (west) elevation and gabled dormers with fiber cement sheathing on the right and left (east) elevations. A two-story gabled wing at the rear has fiber cement siding and vinyl windows. The building is currently four apartments with gravel parking in the front yard and a low stone wall on the left (east) side of the property.

GARAGE
1932-1949
One-story front-gabled frame garage with German-profile weatherboards, batten doors, and flared eaves with exposed rafter tails. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing 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.