735 Gimghoul Road

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GEORGE AND COLLETTE LANE HOUSE
late 1930s
Two-story, frame Colonial Revival with wood shake walls, central door with transom, and an ornate latticework entrance porch with a concave metal hood. Classical eave frieze, eight-over-eight sash windows, and exterior end brick chimney. Built for George Lane, a professor of Germanic languages, and his wife Collette.

The house remains largely unaltered from the 1993 survey, though the house features replacement porch posts, a one-story sunporch has been added to the left (west) elevation, and a two-story wing has been constructed at the rear. The six-panel door has a paneled surround and three-light transom and is sheltered by a flared, hip-roofed porch supported by replacement square columns. The one-story, hip-roofed porch that has been added to the left elevation has full-height fixed six-light windows and six-light French doors. A two-story gabled ell at the left rear (northwest) is likely original, but has been enlarged with the construction of a two-story, side-gabled wing projecting from its west elevation, behind the one-story porch. This wing has materials and finishes to match the historic house. A one-story, hip-roofed screened porch at the right rear (northeast) is likely also a later addition and stands on a brick pier foundation with parking at the basement level below the porch. County tax records date the building to 1939 and it appears on the 1949 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.