212 Vance Street

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: Two-story brick-veneered house with hipped, tiled roof, grouped windows and one-story side wing. This house is the only example of the Spanish Colonial Revival· style in the district.

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

2015 Survey Update: The impressive, two-story house is three bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, six-over-one wood-sash windows with soldier-course brick lintels and brick sills, a replacement tile roof, and an interior brick chimney. The entrance, located at the left (west) end of the façade, is a three-light-over-one-panel Craftsman-style door flanked by pilasters and blind sidelights and is accessed by an uncovered brick stoop with metal railing. A one-story, hip-roofed porch on the right (east) elevation is supported by full-height brick piers and has been enclosed with fixed windows and transoms on a plywood knee wall. A low stone wall extends across the center bay of the façade with a matching wall at the sidewalk at the front of the property. County tax records date the house to 1926.

GARAGE/CARPORT
1925-1932
One-story brick-veneered garage/carport with tiled pyramidal roof on brick piers and metal posts. 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.