May 25, 1989
National Register of Historic Places - Bartlett Mangum House
Statement of Significance: The Bartlett Mangum House, 2107 Chapel Hill Road, is an imposing, substantially intact, two-and-one-half story Neoclassical Revival style frame house constructed in 1908 in a then rural area about two miles southwest of the center of Durham, North Carolina. The ornate, carefully detailed house served as Bartlett Mangum's residence, the seat of his eighty- acre farm and vineyard, and was located immediately across the road from his woodworking/brick yard manufacturing complex (destroyed), then the only business in the area. Stylistically the house belongs to the property type, "Residential Neoclassicism 1900-1920," analyzed in the 1984 multiple resource submission, "Historic Resources of Durham,". The house exhibits locally popular design elements of the Neoclassical Revival style including roof cresting, stained or beveled glass transoms and sidelights, projecting polygonal bays, wraparound porch, pedimented dormers lit by Palladian windows, a monumental two-tier projecting portico carried by massive Doxic columns; and, on the interior, mantels ornamented with swags, garlands and foliate designs and a variety of classically inspired columns and pilasters, fluted and molded door and window trim, and deeply paneled wainscot and doors. The house is architecturally significant as an example of the substantial, elaborate residences constructed at the turn of this century by prominent Durham manufacturers and businessmen. Most of these houses, constructed near the town center, have been demolished, making the few surviving early suburban examples, such as the Mangum House, even more valuable. The MRA section, "Durham's Steady Growth: 1900 to 1920," pp. 8.27- 8.30 provides the local criterion A community development context in which the Bartlett Mangum House is eligible.
National Register of Historic Places - Bartlett Mangum House
Statement of Significance: The Bartlett Mangum House, 2107 Chapel Hill Road, is an imposing, substantially intact, two-and-one-half story Neoclassical Revival style frame house constructed in 1908 in a then rural area about two miles southwest of the center of Durham, North Carolina. The ornate, carefully detailed house served as Bartlett Mangum's residence, the seat of his eighty- acre farm and vineyard, and was located immediately across the road from his woodworking/brick yard manufacturing complex (destroyed), then the only business in the area. Stylistically the house belongs to the property type, "Residential Neoclassicism 1900-1920," analyzed in the 1984 multiple resource submission, "Historic Resources of Durham,". The house exhibits locally popular design elements of the Neoclassical Revival style including roof cresting, stained or beveled glass transoms and sidelights, projecting polygonal bays, wraparound porch, pedimented dormers lit by Palladian windows, a monumental two-tier projecting portico carried by massive Doxic columns; and, on the interior, mantels ornamented with swags, garlands and foliate designs and a variety of classically inspired columns and pilasters, fluted and molded door and window trim, and deeply paneled wainscot and doors. The house is architecturally significant as an example of the substantial, elaborate residences constructed at the turn of this century by prominent Durham manufacturers and businessmen. Most of these houses, constructed near the town center, have been demolished, making the few surviving early suburban examples, such as the Mangum House, even more valuable. The MRA section, "Durham's Steady Growth: 1900 to 1920," pp. 8.27- 8.30 provides the local criterion A community development context in which the Bartlett Mangum House is eligible.
May 25, 1989
Posted Date
Aug 29, 2023
Historical Record Date
May 25, 1989
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places
