214 Glandon Drive
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JOHN AND ISABELLE MACLEOD BLOUNT HOUSE
1950s, c. 2000
Brick Ranch built for John Blount and Isabelle MacLeod. John Blount was a UNC instructor in social sciences; Isabelle MacLeod was a secretary in the UNC records office.
The house has been altered since the 1993 survey with the painting of the brick veneer, the installation of replacement porch posts and the removal of paired windows on the façade and installation of paired French doors in their place. The house retains its original four-bay-wide, side-gabled form with a projecting, front-gabled wing on the left (east) end of the façade and a one-bay-wide side-gabled wing at the west elevation that has a garage at its basement level. The house retains six-over-nine and eight-over-twelve wood-sash windows throughout, though original doors have been replaced with one-light French doors. Paired windows centered on the façade have been replaced with paired one-light French doors. Original wrought-iron porch posts have been replaced with square wood columns. There is an exterior brick chimney on the west elevation, two overhead garage doors at the basement level of that elevation, and a gabled wing at the rear (south). County tax records date the building to 1957.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.
The noncontributing status reflected in the database was assigned to the building as part of the 1993 National Register nomination. Were the NR nomination to be formally updated, the period of significance would likely be extended to include the construction of this property, however, changes to the property would likely render it noncontributing.
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.
