11 Cobb Terrace

Built sometime between 1915 and 1925 (county property records list it as being built in 1917). It, like most of the other houses, was a rental unit until 1946 when the Cobbs family/estate sold the property.

View north, 2014 (photo by Heather Wagner Slane, courtesy North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office)

View north east, 2014 (photo by Heather Wagner Slane, courtesy North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office)

View north west, 2014 (photo by Heather Wagner Slane, courtesy North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office)

From Historic Chapel Hill:

"Originally oriented to the east, the house was reoriented when Cobb Terrace was paved at the rear of the house. The one-story, side-gabled house is four bays wide and double-pile. It has plain weatherboards, an interior brick chimney, and unique sawn rafters. It has one-over-one wood-sash windows with two-light casement windows in the gables and a later twenty-light picture window on the west elevation. A nine-light-over-three-panel door on the left (north) end of the west elevation is sheltered by a shed roof on brackets and has a brick chimney, removed above the roofline, to its immediate south. There is a later thirty-six-light picture window on the north elevation. The house is located below street level with a stone wall and steps from the street. The site slopes to the east with an exposed basement, shed-roofed dormer, and shed-roofed porch on the east elevation. County tax records date the building to 1917 and the building appears on the 1925 Sanborn map. In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building."

For an interesting story on the house and Cobb Terrace, see: 'It’s Been a Good Investment,’ Says Katherine Polk, a Resident of Chapel Hill’s Earliest Planned Development.