221 Vance Street

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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: Two-story four-square house with hipped roof, hipped dormer, symmetrical facade, grouped windows, exterior chimneys and shed porch.

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

2015 Survey Update: The large, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and double-pile with plain weatherboards, nine-over-one wood-sash windows, deep eaves, and exterior brick chimneys on the right (west) and left (east) elevations. The entrance, a fifteen-light French door, is centered on the façade and is sheltered by a full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by paneled square columns with a low railing. A one-story, hip-roofed porch on the left elevation has columns matching the front porch and is enclosed with screens. There is a hip-roofed dormer centered on the façade that has paired louvered vents. A two-story, hip-roofed wing is one bay deep and extends nearly the full width of the rear elevation. A low stone wall extends across the front of the property. County tax records date the house to 1927.

GARAGE
pre-1932
One-story front-gabled frame garage with plain weatherboards, two garage bays infilled with siding and a single French door in the left (east) bay, and a side-gabled wing projecting from the right (west) elevation, resulting in an L-shaped plan. 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.