122 Nelson Street

Located above street level, this one-story, hip-roofed Ranch house has a low-sloped roof with deep eaves, contributing to the horizontality of the house. It is four bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, metal-framed casement windows, and an interior brick chimney. A two-bay-wide, hip-roofed wing projects from the center of the façade with an eight-light window with four-light transom and four-light operable casement windows on its right (northwest) side. An inset porch on its left (southeast) side shelters a solid door with one light and is supported by a decorative metal post. A picture window on the left end of the façade is flanked by casement windows and an interior brick chimney on the left elevation has a “K” on it. Windows on the right end of the façade wrap around the right corner of the building and a basement-level garage on the right end of the façade has a six-panel-over-six-light-over-twelve-panel overhead door. Brick retaining walls flank the driveway on the northwest side of the house and a brick stair leads up from the driveway. County tax records date the house to 1950 and the earliest known occupants are Robert O. Kornegay and his wife, Margaret E. Kornegay, both teachers in Chapel Hill schools, in 1955.

County deed records show C.C. Edwards and his wife, Annie, sold the lot to Harry E. Thomas, Jr. on December 1, 1947.  Mr. Thomas did not build on the lot and sold it to Robert O. Kornegay and his wife, Margaret E. Kornegay on January 9, 1950.  They lived in the house for many years and on August 28, 1980, sold it to William D. Hill, Jr.  In January 6, 1999, Howard Fitts, Jr., guardian of the estate of Mr. Hill, sold the home to Preston J. Barnes and Donna F. Barnes.  They are the owners and occupants of the home.

Preston Barnes is the son of the late Lou Suitt Barnes and the brother of Beverly Barnes Evans of 2111 Otis Street. 

Below is a digitized version of Preston interviewing his mother on the North Carolina public access channel in the 1990s.

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kmasn_LouSuittBarnesInterview_VHS1990Digitized.mpg