308 Ransom Street

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HOUSE
1932-1948
NR nomination: Somewhat altered two-story frame house of minimal traditional-style with side-gabled roof and asymmetrical facade. (This description was listed with the wrong address in the NRHD; it belongs to the neighboring house at 308.5 Ransom.)

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

2015 Survey Update: This one-story, side-gabled, Minimal Traditional-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with vinyl siding, fluted cornerboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows, and an exterior brick chimney on the left (south) elevation. A projecting, front-gabled wing on the left end of the façade has a four-light window in the gable. The entrance, is located on the right (north) elevation of this wing and is sheltered by an inset porch on the right end of the façade that is supported by square posts and has a replacement wood ramp. County tax records date the house to 1942.

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.