209 Vance Street

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HOUSE
1925-1932
NR nomination: One-story frame Colonial Revival dwelling with side-gabled roof and pedimented portico, end-chimneys, paired windows and sidelit entry.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and triple-pile with a full-width gabled rear wing. It has plain weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows, full cornice returns, and exterior brick chimneys in the gables. The entrance has five-light sidelights and is sheltered by a front-gabled porch with arched ceiling and partial cornice returns supported by paired columns. A pergola has replaced a one-story hip-roofed porch, supported by paired columns, on the left (east) elevation and there is a gabled dormer on the right (west) elevation of the rear wing. County tax records, and the current owner, date the house to 1927.

SHED
1925-1932
One-story frame front-gabled garden shed with plain weatherboards and paired eight-light French doors on the north elevation. 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.