704 Gimghoul Road

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DR. MARSHALL HOUSE
late 1920s
Two-story, frame Colonial Revival-style house with an entrance with a transom, sidelights, and bracketed hood, double and triple wooden casement windows, exterior end brick chimneys, wood-shingled walls, and flanking one-story wings. Built for Dr. Marshall, a physician, and owned in the 1930s by Gladys and Ernest Groves, marriage authorities who taught at UNC.

The house is significantly deteriorated and is threatened by demolition. The three-bay-wide house is double-pile with wood shingles, a wide friezeboard between the first and second floors, grouped ten-light wood-sash casement windows on the first story, grouped eight-light casement windows on the second story, and two exterior brick chimneys. The six-panel door is inset slightly and has five-light sidelights, a three-part transom, and is sheltered by a hipped roof on brackets. A one-story, hip-roofed porch on the right (west) elevation has a standing-seam roof supported by wood columns and has been enclosed with screens. A one-story, hip-roofed wing on the left (east) elevation has a standing-seam metal roof, a replacement six-panel door with five-light sidelights and a four-light transom on the façade and grouped ten-light casement windows on the east and rear elevations. There is a hip-roofed dormer and a one-story hip-roofed wing centered on the rear elevation. County tax records date the building to 1930 and the house appears on the 1932 Sanborn map.

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

GARAGE
1930
One-story, frame garage with pyramidal roof was extensively remodeled before 1993 with diagonally-installed weatherboards, vinyl slider windows on the east elevation and two, projecting shed-roofed bays on the south elevation. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

LIBRARY
1935
One-story, stone cottage with pyramidal roof was built by the Groves as a library. It features a five-panel door on the west elevation, an exterior stone chimney flanked by four-light casement windows on the east elevation, and a door flanked by four-light casement windows on the north elevation, facing the house. 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.