250 Glandon Drive

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R. J. M. AND GRETCHEN TAYLOR HOBBS HOUSE
early 1930s
Two-story frame Colonial Revival with arched, pedimented entrance portico, door with sidelights and fanlight, plain siding, eight-over-twelve and eight-over-eight window sash, and west side Doric porch with roof balustrade. Built for R. J. M. Hobbs, a professor of business law at UNC, and his wife, Gretchen Taylor Hobbs.

The house appears largely unaltered from the 1993 survey with the only change being the enclosure of a one-story porch on the left (south) elevation. The house retains original siding and windows and the eight-panel door has four-light-over-one-panel sidelights, an arched transom, and is sheltered by a front-gabled porch on slender columns. The one-story porch had been supported by columns matching those on the front porch, but has been fully enclosed with glass and is supported by rectilinear wood framing. It does, however, retain the original wood railing at the roofline. The rear of the house features two gabled dormers and a one-story, shed-roofed entrance wing with a shed roof supported by brackets over the fifteen-light French door. County tax records date the building to 1932 and the building appears on the 1932 Sanborn map.

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

GARAGE
1930s
Frame, Colonial Revival-style side-gabled garage built at the same time as the house has plain weatherboards, six-over-six wood-sash windows and an overhead door on the south elevation. A pergola has been added to the east elevation. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

DOGHOUSE
2000
Small frame doghouse was constructed with fiber-cement siding and asphalt-shingled roof to match the main house. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Structure.

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.