741 Gimghoul Road

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HOWARD BEALE HOUSE
late 1930s
One-and-a-half-story, brick Colonial Revival with a central door with transom and surround of fluted Doric pilasters and broken pediment, patterned brick flanking the door, and eight-over-eight sash windows. The upper story has plain siding and four-pane casement windows, and a scalloped cornice. Exterior end brick chimney. Off the rear elevation, west side garage wing with arched entrance bays and a side-dormer window. Built for UNC history professor Howard Beale.

The house appears unaltered from the 1993 survey. The six-panel door has a four-light transom. There are three partially-inset, shed-roofed dormers on the rear (north) elevation, each with a single six-over-six wood-sash window. An inset porch at the right rear (northeast) has arched brick openings that have been enclosed with weatherboards and sliding windows. The side-gabled garage wing has arched vehicular bays, weatherboard in the gables, and a gabled wall dormer with six-over-three window on the façade. County tax records date the building to 1935 and the house does not appear on the 1932 Sanborn map, but is present on the 1949 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.