208 Glandon Drive

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CRITZ AND WILMA GEORGE HOUSE
late 1920s, c. 2000
One-and-a-half-story, frame gable-front Colonial Revival, with one-story, gabled side wing, wood shake walls, gabled entrance portico, six-over-six window sash, exterior stone chimney. Built for Critz George, UNC professor of anatomy, and his wife Wilma from a design by Durham architect George Watts Carr.

The house has been altered since the 1993 survey with the addition of a covered walkway on the left (north) elevation that connects to a one-and-a-half-story, front-gabled garage. The house is oriented with the gable end facing the street, gabled dormers along the north elevation, and a one-story side-gabled wing on the south elevation. It retains original windows and the eight-panel door on the south end of the façade is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by grouped, paneled square columns. A two-story, shed-roofed wing extends from the ridgeline of the side-gabled wing and has gables on the east elevation. The covered walkway on the north elevation has a gabled roof supported by grouped square columns. The one-and-a-half-story, front-gabled garage has wood shakes to match the house, a wide garage door on the first-floor level and a projecting gabled bay with large fixed window with fanlight centered at the second-floor level and flanked by six-over-six windows. County tax records date the building to 1927 and the building appears on the 1932 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.