216 West University Drive

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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: One-story Colonial Revival frame dwelling with side-gabled roof, exterior end-chimney, symmetrical facade and paired sash windows.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is side-gabled, three bays wide and double-pile with a near-full-width, gabled rear ell. It has plain weatherboards, three-over-one Craftsman-style wood-sash windows, over paneled aprons on the façade, louvered vents and knee brackets in the gables, an interior brick chimney, and an exterior brick chimney on the left (west) elevation that is flanked by replacement one-light windows. The entrance, a six-panel door with one-light-over-one-panel sidelights, is centered on the façade and sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by square columns and with a decorative metal railing. An uncovered brick terrace, encircled with a brick knee wall, extends beyond the porch to the full width of the façade. The rear wing features three-over-one windows except on the rear (north) elevation where high clerestory windows flank an inset entrance bay. County tax records date the house to 1926.

GARAGE
pre-1932
Front-gabled, frame garage is connected to the neighboring garage at 407 Ransom Street. The garage has plain weatherboards, exposed rafter tails, knee brackets in the gable, and a modern overhead door. In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing 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.