698 Gimghoul Road

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KATHERINE LACKEY HOUSE
1939
One-and-a-half-story, frame, Colonial Revival-style house with exterior end stone chimney, front and rear dormers, transomed door, six-over-six and eight-over-twelve window sash. Only substantial alteration is aluminum siding. Built for Katherine Lackey, secretary to long-time UNC President Frank Porter Graham.

The front of the house appears unaltered since the 1992 survey, though a one-story, shed-roofed wing has been added to the right rear (southwest). The house is three bays wide and double-pile with aluminum siding and the louvered front door has a five-light transom and a classical surround with pilasters supported by a molded lintel. First-floor windows are eight-over-twelve throughout while the gable and dormer windows are six-over-six. There are two gabled dormers on the façade and a shed-roofed dormer on the rear elevation. There is a low stone wall along the street and a pierced brick wall encloses the rear yard, extending from the back corners of the house. County tax records date the building to 1952; the area is not covered on Sanborn maps.

In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing 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.