740 Gimghoul Road

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HOUSE
2009
The current building replaced OR2552, the Bolick House, an earlier, two-story, frame Colonial Revival-style house. The 1956 Chapel of St. Thomas More was also removed from the site. A one-story outbuilding southwest of the house may be the 1960s rental cottage noted in the 1993 survey, but if so, has been significantly altered.

The two-story, hip-roofed house is five bays wide and double-pile with five gabled wall dormers on the façade and a projecting, front-gabled wing on the left (east) end of the façade. It has four interior brick chimneys and twelve-light casement windows throughout with fixed twenty-light windows on the first-floor façade. The two-light-over-two-panel front door has four-light sidelights and a four-light transom and is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by columns. A shed-roofed portion of the porch extends across the west side of the façade and is supported by columns. There is a one-story, hip-roofed sunporch on the east elevation. A one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled wing extends from the west elevation with a single gabled dormer. A two-story, hip-roofed wing projects from the southwest corner of the main two-story structure with a one-and-a-half-story hip-roofed wing extending from the rear (south) of the side-gabled wing, parallel with the two-story rear wing. A series of other gabled and hip-roofed wings extend from the rear (south) elevation. A one-story, side-gabled hyphen on the west elevation has full-height, fixed windows and connects to a one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled garage with pedimented gables and two gabled dormers on the north elevation, facing the street.

In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

RENTAL COTTAGE
c. 1960s
One-story, side-gabled, frame garage with paired vinyl windows, a low gable on the north elevation, and a chimney on the west elevation. The building may be the Rental Cottage noted in the 1993 survey, but if so, has been significantly altered. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

ST. THOMAS MORE MARKER
2009
This stone marker features a pointed-arch stone with flanking Art Deco-style sections. It reads “Chapel of St. Thomas More; In Memory of Virginia Sharpe” and is surrounded by landscape plantings in formal, straight lines. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Object.

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.