723 Gimghoul Road

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JAMES AND VIVIAN PHIPPS HOUSE
late 1920s
One-story, frame Craftsman cottage of diminuitive scale, with elegant tripartite floor-length fixed-sash windows flanking the front door with wide sidelights. All windows have Craftsman muntin pattern. Large segmental arched Doric entrance porch and full-length front raised patio. Buff-colored brick exterior end chimneys have arched recessed panels that accommodate lattice supports for plants. A rear addition extends to the west side. Built for James Phipps, a Chapel Hill attorney, and his wife Vivian.

The house appears unaltered from the 1993 survey, and is the most intact of the historic houses in the district. The house has a gabled dormer on the façade with two nine-light Craftsman-style casement windows. The ridge of the gabled dormer extends to the rear, forming the ridge of the full-width gabled rear wing. The entire house has German-profile weatherboards and Craftsman-style windows, generally nine-light, throughout. The porch shelters an original two-panel door and its brick floor extends across the entire façade as an uncovered brick terrace. A later side-gabled wing at the left rear (northwest) has a smooth finish, perhaps stucco, a metal frame window, and a six-light-over-three-panel door on the façade. It has German-profile weatherboards on the side and rear elevations and a basement-level garage on the east elevation. County tax records date the building to 1932, though it appears on the 1925 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.