106 Ridge Lane
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T. C. ATWOOD DUPLEX
1924, 1970s
One-story frame house of Colonial Revival style, with a hip roof, a mixture of window sashes (including sets of tripled four-over-four, eight-over-eight, and six-over-six sash), two interior brick chimneys, plain siding, generously proportioned cornerboards and friezeboards, and wide window and door trim. The house was built as a duplex by T. C. Atwood, the supervising architect at UNC in the 1920s, to house several of the workers of his firm, Atwood and Nash. The present entrance is located on the side facing Gimghoul Road, and is fronted by a Doric entrance stoop with paneled posts. The 1925 Sanborn Map shows two small entrance porches, one facing Ridge Lane, the other facing Evergreen Lane, which apparently have been replaced by the current entrance. The house remained a duplex until the 1970s, when it was converted to a single family house.
The house appears largely unaltered from the 1993 survey with the exception of replacement windows throughout. The six-panel door on the south elevation is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch supported by paneled square columns. There is a projecting, hip-roofed bay on the right (south) end of the façade, and a hip-roofed wing on the north elevation is recessed slightly and has paired windows. County tax records date the building to 1921 and it appears on the 1925 Sanborn map.
In the 2013 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.
GARAGE
1924
One-story, side-gable, frame garage with plain siding, two auto bays, and a storage bay. The southern bay is located inside the property line of the adjacent house, at 733 Gimghoul Road, and belongs to that property. 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.
