224 Vance Street

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HOUSE
1949-1960
NR nomination: Two-story, brick-veneered house with side-gabled roof, exterior end-chimney and one-story side wings.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house, painted since 1992, is three bays wide and double-pile with a soldier-course watertable, eight-over-eight wood-sash windows with soldier-course lintels, and an exterior brick chimney in the right (east) gable. The six-panel door is centered on the façade in an inset, paneled entrance bay with a classical surround on the façade featuring a broken pediment supported by fluted pilasters and accessed by an uncovered brick stoop with metal railing. A one-story, hip-roofed frame wing on the right elevation has German-profile weatherboards and replacement eight-light casement windows (the 1992 photo showed double-hung windows). A one-story, gabled wing on the left (west) elevation has an entrance on the left elevation, a two-light-over-four-panel door sheltered by gabled roof on knee brackets, and a garage bay at the basement level of the rear (north) elevation. This opening has been enclosed with a double-leaf door and German siding. There is a two-story, gabled ell at the left rear (northwest) and a later, one-story, hip-roofed screened porch supported by square columns at the right rear (northeast) that was constructed since 1992.

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.