712 Gimghoul Road

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STERLING STOUDEMIRE HOUSE
1926
One-and-a-half-story, frame Dutch Colonial Revival-style house with plain siding, interior end brick chimney, cross-gable over entrance, recessed dormers with nine-over-one window sash and eight-over-eight window sash in the first story. Built for Sterling Stoudemire, professor of romance languages and chair of the department for many years.

The building remains largely unchanged since the 1993 survey with the exception of a screened porch addition on the right (west) elevation and a full-width, one-story rear addition. The house has six-over-one wood-sash windows in the partially-inset shed-roofed dormers and steeply-pitched front gable, not nine-over-one as described in the National Register nomination. The twelve-light French door, previously obscured by a louvered screened door, is likely original and has a classical surround with pilasters supporting a lintel and is accessed by an uncovered brick stoop. A shed-roofed screened porch on the west elevation is supported by square columns. There is an original full-width, shed-roofed dormer on the rear elevation and a one-story, single-pile, hip-roofed addition at the rear of the building opens to an uncovered patio with a two-car brick garage below. County tax records date the building to 1926 and the house appears on the 1932 Sanborn map.

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.