360 Glandon Drive
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ALLAN WILSON AND NELL BLAIR HOBBS HOUSE
1924
Two-story frame Colonial Revival with door set in side bay of front, plain siding, eight-over-eight window sash, and flanking one-story wings with six-over-six window sash. Three brick chimneys, full-height engaged Doric portico across central block. Built for Allan Wilson Hobbs, a professor of mathematics at UNC, and his wife Nell Blair Hobbs.
The house appears unaltered from the 1993 survey, and is one of the most intact historic houses in the district. The three-bay-wide house has eight-over-eight wood-sash windows on the first-floor façade with six-over-six windows throughout the rest of the building. The entrance retains its original classical surround and full-width, two-story portico supported by square columns. One-story wings on the east and west elevations are each two bays wide with gable-end chimneys. There is a one-story gabled wing that extends from the rear of the west wing with a projecting bay on its south elevation and a full-width, hip-roofed section across the rear (south) elevation. The building appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
SHED - GENERAL STORAGE
2000
Asymmetrical, side-gabled shed with board-and-batten sheathing. In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing 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.
