728 Gimghoul Road
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JOHN S. AND MANNIE BENNETT HOUSE
1927
Two-story, frame Colonial Revival with unusually refined trim, including and arched pedimented entrance portico, fanlight and sidelights, eight-over-eight window sash, exterior end brick chimney, plain siding, boxed eaves with pattern boards. The house has flanking one-story side wings. Built for John S. Bennett, head of UNC physical plant for many years, and his wife Minnie.
The house appears unaltered from the 1993 survey. It is three bays wide and double-pile with a six-panel door centered on the façade with five-light sidelights and an arched transom. The entrance is sheltered by a pedimented portico with cornice returns supported by slender columns. The one-story side wings are each one-bay-wide and have hipped roofs. There is a thirty-six-light picture window on the left (east) elevation of the east wing. A two-story, gabled wing at the rear has a one-story gabled block at its rear (south) and a one-story, hip-roofed section, perhaps an enclosed porch, along its east elevation. County tax records date the building to 1925 and it appears on the 1932 Sanborn map.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
GARAGE
1927
One-story, frame side-gabled two-car garage, apparently built at the same time as the house, has plain weatherboards, two open garage bays on the north elevation, and a single six-light window on the south elevation. 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.
