500 Pittsboro Street

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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: Two-story frame house with board and batten siding on second story and weatherboards below. The facade is dominated by two front-facing gables. The house has been heavily altered, especially on the interior.

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

2015 Survey Update: The front-gabled house has projecting two-story gables on the right (north) and left (south) elevations, with a one-story, front-gabled wing extending from the front of the right wing, resulting in two gables on the façade. It has replacement fiber-cement siding, board-and-batten on the second floor and in the gables, vinyl windows, and deep eaves. The entrance, originally located at the front of the one-story, front-gabled wing has been moved to the front of the two-story, front-gabled section and the original brick steps have been infilled with brick to create a planter. The entrance features a replacement door with vinyl sidelights that is sheltered by a shed roof supported by knee brackets and is accessed by an unpainted wood deck. There is an exterior brick chimney on the left elevation and an exterior metal fire stair leads to a second-floor level entrance on the side-gabled wing. There is a two-story, shed-roofed bay projecting from the rear of the two-story wing on the right elevation and beyond it a one-story, side-gabled entrance bay with a single door accessed by an unpainted wood stair. A one-story, flat-roofed addition extends across the full rear (west) of the building. A low stone wall extends across the front of the property and there is gravel parking at the rear, accessed by Vance Street. County tax records date the house to 1920. Were the NRHD to be updated, the house would likely be considered noncontributing due to the relocation of the front entrance.

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.