715 Gimghoul Road

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EDWARD MONTGOMERY KNOX HOUSE
1925
One-and-a-half-story, frame Classical Revival bungalow, with an engaged front porch supported by massive wooden Doric columns. Side-gable roof with a front shed dormer with eight-over-eight sash, plain siding, fifteen-over-fifteen window sash in the first story. A French door opens onto the large west side porch, also supported by massive Doric columns. Exterior end brick chimney. Built for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Montgomery Knox by contractor Charles Martindale. A Sunday morning chamber music group that met in this house in the mid-1930s was the beginning of the North Carolina Symphony.

The front of the house appears largely unaltered from the 1993 survey with additions limited to the rear of the structure. The siding has mitered corners and the paneled door, centered on the façade has six-light sidelights. A one-story, hip-roofed wing extends the full width of the rear elevation with double-hung windows at the first-floor and basement levels. A one-story gabled wing extends from the east elevation of this wing as well as from the east end of the north elevation. This north wing has a garage at the basement level and an uncovered wood deck along its west elevation. County tax records date the building to 1925 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.