Date: c. 1880
206 S. Salem Street, Apex
Designated 4/3/2018
The ca. 1880 Baucom-Olive House is significant for its architecture as one of Apex’s most distinctive and intact examples of the early Queen Anne style. The first wave of Apex houses in this long-popular style were essentially vernacular types with applied ornament, while later versions were larger and more complete examples with complicated, asymmetrical massing. The Baucom-Olive House is a well-executed version of the earlier style, featuring fishscale shingles, a decorative vent, and sawn bargeboard in the end of the gabled section of a gable front-and-wing house. The wraparound porch had turned posts, a spindled frieze, and sawn brackets. Both the porch form and a bay window in the gable wall add to the asymmetrical massing characteristic of the style. The partially glazed front door with transom and front room windows that extend to the floor are notable elements of the fenestration.