240 Glandon Drive
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SHIPP AND KATE SANDERS HOUSE
late 1930s
One-and-a-half-story brick Colonial Revival, five bays wide, with pedimented entrance porch, six-over-six window sash, exterior brick chimney, three dormer windows, and recessed one-story side wings. Built for Shipp and Kate Sanders. Shipp was a professor of history at UNC; Kate was a public school teacher and the sister of Dr. Frank Porter Graham.
The front of the house has been altered slightly since the 1993 survey and the rear has been enlarged significantly. The original form of the house remains largely unaltered though a side-gabled wing has been added to the right (west) elevation, set slightly behind the existing gabled porch wing and with brick veneer and a twenty-eight-light picture window flanked by six-over-six windows. A gabled wing at its rear (south) has a projecting bay on the south elevation. An existing, side-gabled frame hyphen on the left (east) elevation has been enlarged, has grouped windows and the removal of an original gabled dormer. It connects to a later one-and-a-half story, brick wing with paired French doors and two gabled dormers on the façade. A gabled hyphen at the rear of this one-and-a-half-story block connects to a side-gabled garage with three gabled dormers on the south elevation, accessed by Ridge Lane. This wing forms a courtyard at the rear of the house that is heavily landscaped with a reflecting pool and pergola. County tax records date the building to 1938 and the house appears on the 1949 Sanborn map.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
The contributing 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, this property may be considered non-contributing.
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.
