738 Gimghoul Road

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TAUL WHITE HOUSE
late 1930s, c. 2000
Two-story, brick Colonial Revival with an ornate leaded transom and pediment over the front door, twelve-over-twelve sash on the first story and eight-over-eight sash on the second story, large exterior end brick chimney, and a lunette window in the gable end. Built for Mr. and Mrs. Taul White.

The house has been substantially altered since the 1993 survey with the addition of a two-story gabled wing on the right (west) elevation, the addition of a gabled wing at the rear, and the construction of a garage that is connected to the house by a covered walkway. The two-story wing on the right (west) elevation is one bay wide and of brick construction with windows matching the original house. A two-story gabled wing at the left rear (southeast) replaced an earlier one-story, shed-roofed wing and features weatherboards at the second-story level and an inset porch, enclosed with glass, at the first story. From the right rear (southwest) corner extends a two-story, gabled frame rear ell with plain weatherboards and double-hung windows, replacing an earlier brick shed-roofed wing visible in the 1993 photos. A hip-roofed metal covering supported by metal poles shelters an entrance on the west elevation of the west wing and connects to a flat-roofed canopy that extends to a recently constructed garage. County tax records date the house to 1937 and the house appears on the 1949 Sanborn map.

In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

The contributing status reflected in the database was assigned to the building as part of the 1993 National Register nomination. Were the NR nomination to be formally updated, this property would likely be considered noncontributing.

GARAGE
1930s
One-story, gambrel-roofed, frame garage belonged to an earlier house at 734 Gimghoul. It has plain weatherboards, two pairs of batten doors on the north elevation, and a single paneled door on the east elevation. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

GARAGE
2000
One-story, front-gabled garage of brick construction with paired windows on the north elevation, an exterior brick chimney flanked by overhead doors on the east elevation, and two overhead garage doors on the west elevation with a single window in the gable above. A one-and-a-half-story, gabled wing extends from the south elevation with paired windows and a shed-roofed dormer on its east and west elevations. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCE: M. Ruth Little, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District, Orange County, OR0709 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2013, via HPOWEB, accessed 8 Jan. 2020), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office; Heather Wagner Slane, 2013 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.