215 Vance Street

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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: One-and-a-half-story frame bungalow with side-gabled roof, oversized shed dormer, full-length shed porch and grouped four-over-one sash windows.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, four-over-one Craftsman-style wood-sash windows, in groups of three on the façade and left (east) elevation, and two interior brick chimneys near the gables. The fifteen-light French door, centered on the façade, is sheltered by a full-width, engaged shed-roofed porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers, with paneled spandrels. A wide shed-roofed dormer on the façade has exposed rafter tails and paired doors flanked by four-over-one wood-sash windows. The dormer roof extends as a shed-roofed, second-floor-level porch supported by square posts on a weatherboard-covered knee wall. There is a one-story, gabled ell at the left rear (southeast). County tax records date the house to 1932.

SECONDARY HOUSE
pre-1932
Small L-plan secondary frame Craftsman house with plain weatherboards, exposed rafter tails, and a screened porch on the right (west) end of the façade that shelters a three-light-over-one-panel Craftsman-style door. In the 2015 survey this structure was deemed Contributing. 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.