227 Vance Street

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HOUSE
pre-1932
NR nomination: Two-story, frame L-shaped house with front-gabled roof and side cross-gable.

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

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with a two-story, single-pile wing that extends across the rear (south), extending beyond the left (east) elevation and resulting in an L-shaped plan. The house has plain weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows, partial cornice returns, arched vents in the gables, and an interior brick chimney. The porch, formerly enclosed with screens, has been reconstructed. Located on the left elevation, within the L created by the two wings, the hip-roofed porch is supported by square columns and shelters a nine-light-over-two-panel door and a pair of fifteen-light French doors on the left elevation. An entrance on the right (west) elevation, facing Ransom Street, has been replaced with two windows since 1992. A one-story, projecting bay on the right (west) elevation has a group of three windows and a standing-seam metal roof. Windows at the right rear (southwest) of the first-floor level are smaller six-over-six windows. County tax records date the house to 1927.

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.