218 Wilson Street

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HOUSE
1932-1948
NR nomination: One-story brick-veneered dwelling with side-gabled roof, gabled dormer, exterior end-chimney and front-facing cross-gable with portico with arched opening.

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

2015 Survey Update: The side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and triple-pile with a near-full-width, hip-roofed rear wing. The house has a brick veneer with a basketweave watertable and basketweave course at the eaves of the façade and left elevation. It has four-over-one Craftsman-style wood-sash windows with soldier-course lintels and brick sills, partial cornice returns, and an exterior brick chimney in the right (north) gable end. The entrance, centered on the façade, is a four-light-over-two-panel door and is sheltered by a front-gabled porch on full-height brick piers with arched spandrels. A front-gabled porch on the left (south) end of the façade is supported by full-height brick piers, has been enclosed with one-over-one sash and vertical board sheathing, and has a four-light Craftsman-style window in its gable. A gabled dormer on the right end of the façade has German-profile weatherboards, partial cornice returns, and paired three-over-one casement windows. The left end of the façade and left elevation are largely obscured by vegetation.

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.