306 Ransom Street

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: One-story frame Colonial Revival-style dwelling with side-gabled roof, interior chimney and symmetrical facade. The lot is bounded by a picket fence.

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, eight-over-one wood-sash windows, a replacement metal roof, and an interior brick chimney. Windows on the façade are tripartite windows with eight-over-one windows flanked by four-over-one windows. The entrance, a four-light-over-one-panel Craftsman-style door with seven-light sidelights, is centered on the façade and sheltered by a front-gabled porch with arched ceiling and partial gable returns supported by grouped columns. The side elevations each feature wood shingles and a single six-over-one window in the gables.

SHED
2000
Front-gabled, frame shed to the right rear (northwest) of the house has plain weatherboards, flush sheathing in the gable, a 5V roof, two-panel door, and a six-over-six window on the south elevation. In the 2015 survey this structure was deemed Not Contributing.

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.