223 Vance Street

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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: Two-story frame house with side-gabled roof, asymmetrical facade and interior chimney.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with German-profile weatherboards, replacement windows (new since 1992), an interior brick chimney, and a replacement door on the left (east) end of the façade that is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by square posts with wood lattice on the sides of the porch. A two-story, side-gabled wing on the right (west) elevation has a second floor that overhangs the first floor, indicating that the second floor may have been added later. One original four-over-one Craftsman-style wood-sash window remains on the façade of the first floor of this wing. There is a two-story gabled ell at the left rear (southeast) with a one-story, shed-roofed screened porch beyond it. County tax records date the house to 1932.

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.