211 Vance Street

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HOUSE
1997
NR nomination: The newly constructed house replaces a one-story frame house with front-gabled roof, symmetrical facade and exterior chimney. The current house is a tall two-story eclectic Victorian-style structure with a wrap-around porch, projecting front-gable at the second level, a one-story front-gabled projection, and Craftsman-inf1uenced windows.

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

2015 Survey Update: The two-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting, one-story, front-gabled wing on the right (west) end of the façade. The house has fiber cement siding, three-over-one aluminum-clad Craftsman-style windows, and an interior stuccoed chimney. The entrance, centered on the façade, is a six-panel door with one-light transom and is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch that extends across the left (east) two bays of the façade and wraps around the left elevation. The porch is supported by tapered square columns and there is a front gable over the entrance and a ramp at the left elevation of the porch. On the left end of the façade, a projecting, gabled bay at the second-floor level has paired windows and a diamond-shaped vent in the gable. A two-story, gabled screened porch at the rear of the left elevation has columns at the first-floor level and a wood posts on a weatherboard-covered knee wall at the second-floor level. County tax records date the house to 1997 and the house appears in construction in the 1997 survey photos.

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.