218 Vance Street

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: Two-story frame house with one-story wings. Colonial Revival features include side-gabled roof, eight-over-twelve sashes, and a door surround with sidelights and transom.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with wood shingles, eight-over-twelve windows on the first floor, eight-over-eight windows on the second floor, partial cornice returns, and an interior brick chimney. The entrance, centered on the façade, is a six-panel door with five-light sidelights and a three-part transom. It is sheltered by a front-gabled porch with partial cornice returns on paired slender square columns. There is a single window in each gable and a one-story, flat-roofed wing on the right (east) elevation has paired eight-over-eight windows and a railing at the roofline. A one-story wing on the left (west) elevation is likely an enclosed porch with paired twelve-light French doors on the façade flanked by five-light-over-one-panel sidelights. It has paired ten-light casement windows on the left elevation and a wood railing at the roofline. Second-floor doors provide access to the roof of each wing. A low stone wall with stone piers extends along the sidewalk and driveway.

SHED
2000
One-story, side-gabled, frame shed with wood shingles and a batten door was not noted in the NRHD. 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.