205 Vance Street

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HOUSE
1915-1925
NR nomination: Two-story frame four-square house with hipped roof, interior chimneys, four-over-four sash windows and full-length bungaloid shed porch.

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

2015 Survey Update: Largely obscured by trees and bushes, this two-story, hip-roofed house is two bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, four-over-four wood-sash windows with operable shutters, two interior stuccoed chimneys, and deep, flared eaves. There is a replacement door on the left (east) end of the façade and an original one-light-over-three-panel door on the right (west) end of the façade, both of which are sheltered by a near-full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers. There is a one-story, hip-roofed projecting bay on the right elevation with six-over-six windows on all three sides. Windows on the left elevation are paired and flank a central door. There is a one-story, hip-roofed wing at the right rear (southwest) that connects to a hip-roofed wing that projects beyond the right elevation, creating an L-shaped wing. A one-story, shed-roofed wing extends from the left rear (southeast).

GARAGE
post-1948
One-story frame garage with pyramidal roof with flared eaves, plywood sheathing, and a three-part door on the north elevation. 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.