402 West Patterson Place

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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: One-story bungalow with side-gabled roof, gabled dormer and engaged front porch.

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

2015 Survey Update: The one-and-one-half-story house was constructed as a one-story house with gabled front dormer, but the roofline was steepened and a shed-roofed dormer added between 2002 and 2015. The house is three bays wide with German-profile weatherboards, three-over-one Craftsman-style wood-sash windows, generally grouped, and knee brackets in the gables. The replacement six-panel door is sheltered by a full-width, engaged, shed-roofed porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers with an original matchstick railing. A shed-roofed dormer, centered on the façade, has a group of three three-over-one windows. There is a projecting, shed-roofed bay on the right (east) elevation, a replacement glass-block window on the left (west) elevation, and two three-over-one windows in each gable. A full-width gable extends across the rear (north) elevation, also taller than shown in the 2002 photos, and there is an uncovered wood deck at the rear. County tax records date the building to 1922. The shed-roofed dormer replaced an earlier gabled dormer between 1997 and 2002. Were the NRHD to be updated, the building would likely be considered noncontributing due to this alteration.

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.