105 Ridge Lane
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DUDLEY AND ELEANOR ELLIOTT CARROLL HOUSE
1924
Two-story frame Colonial Revival-style house, four bays wide, with flanking one-story wings. The house has a gable roof, plain siding, an exterior end brick chimney, six-over-nine sash in the first story and six-over-six sash in the second, and a front entrance with a pedimented Doric entrance stoop. The window shutters have a half-moon design. The south wing is a screened porch with slender Doric posts. To the rear is a recent one-story addition. The house was built for Dudley and Eleanor Elliott Carroll by Chatham County contractor Barber. Dudley was Dean of the School of Business at UNC.
The house appears unaltered from the 1993 survey. The house has partial cornice returns. The five-panel door has a three-light transom and is sheltered by a gabled roof supported by square columns. The gabled porch on the south elevation is also supported by square columns. A one-story wing at the right rear (northwest), behind the one-story gabled wing, has a combination of six-over-six and six-light casement windows with a full-height casement window with fanlight on the west gable end. An uncovered wood deck is located at the intersection of the main house and rear wing. County tax records date the building to 1927, though the house appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
GARAGE
1924
Frame, front-gabled garage with two auto bays and plain siding built at the same time as the house. The batten doors do not appear in 1993 photos and may have been added later. 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.
