502 Ransom Street

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HOUSE
1940-1948
NR nomination: Two-story frame house with side-gabled root, symmetrical facade, exterior end-chimney and classical front door surround.

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

2015 Survey Update: The Colonial Revival-style house is five bays wide and double-pile with asbestos siding, six-over-six and six-over-nine wood-sash windows, a modern metal roof, and an exterior brick chimney on the left (south) elevation. The entrance, centered on the façade, is a six-panel door with multi-light fanlight and pedimented surround with fluted pilasters. A two-story, side-gabled wing on the south elevation is one bay wide and has a nine-light-over-two-panel door on the façade that is accessed by an uncovered brick stoop. A one-story, gabled hyphen at the right rear (northwest) has an open bay with columns supporting an arched spandrel. The hyphen connects the house to a later garage to the rear. County tax records date the house to 1940..

GARAGE
post-1949
One-story, side-gabled frame garage with plain weatherboards, a modern metal roof, and a wide two-car overhead door on the north elevation. The garage is connected to the house by a small gabled hyphen. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building..

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.