225 Vance Street
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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: Two-story frame house with front-gabled roof, asymmetrical facade and interior chimney.
In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
2015 Survey Update: The house was heavily renovated before 2002 and is two bays wide and triple-pile with a slightly narrower, front-gabled wing on the façade. The house has plain weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows, exposed rafter tails, exposed purlins in the front gable, and an interior brick chimney. The entrance has been moved to the left (east) end of the façade and is a six-light-over-three-panel door. To the right (west) of the entrance is a projecting bay with paired windows. A replacement one-story porch extends the full width of the façade with a front-gabled roof on the left end, sheltering the entrance, and a hip-roofed section on the right end. The porch is supported by two-part square columns with a matchstick railing. An entrance on the left elevation is sheltered by a hipped roof with exposed rafter tails supported by decorative latticework. There are three shed-roofed wall dormers each on the right and left elevations, a projecting, shed-roofed bay on the first floor of the right elevation, and a one-story, hip-roofed sunroom at the right rear (southwest). A loose stone wall extends across the front of the property. County tax records date the house to 1932. Were the NRHD to be updated, the house would likely be considered noncontributing due to the changes in fenestration on the façade and the construction of a new front porch, which were completed between 1992 and 2002.
GARAGE
pre-1932
One-story front-gabled frame garage with plain weatherboards and batten 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.
