210 Ransom Street

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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: One-story frame dwelling with side-gabled roof, grouped windows and recessed entry. Craftsman style influences include triangular knee braces in gable end, three-over-one sash windows, and tapered porch supports.

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

2015 Survey Update: Oriented with a corner porch that faces the intersection of West Patterson Place and Ransom Street, this one-story, side-gabled bungalow is three bays wide and double-pile with German-profile weatherboards, three-over-one Craftsman-style wood-sash windows, generally grouped, and knee brackets in the gables. The entrance, a four-light, Craftsman-style door, is located on the left (south) end of the façade in a recessed bay. It is sheltered by an inset porch that wraps around the left elevation as a shed-roofed porch and is supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers with an original matchstick railing. On the left elevation, facing Patterson Place, the rear (west) bay projects slightly under a shed roof and there are paired windows in the gable. A shed-roofed dormer on the rear elevation has two three-over-one windows, exposed rafter tails, and knee brackets. An entrance on the right (north) elevation is accessed by an uncovered wood deck. County tax records date the house to 1922.

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.