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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
- 1920s
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The University of North Carolina Press is founded
On June 12, 1922, university librarian Louis Round Wilson, nine other faculty members and three trustees founded the University of North Carolina Press, the first university press in the South. Its first book, William C. Coker's study of water molds, appeared in 1923, and William T. Couch became director in 1932.
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Trustees vote to ask for a 200-bed teaching hospital in Chapel Hill
A June 1 report by Dean Isaac H. Manning, Chase and Dr. Richard H. Lewis found the state 45th in hospital beds and short of doctors. Twelve days later the full board voted to ask the legislature for a 200-bed teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, a memorial to the World War dead, so the two-year medical school could grow to four years.
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University trustees name the new law building for John Manning
At their June 13, 1922 meeting the university trustees approved naming the new law building for John Manning. The School of Law moved into Manning Hall before the fall 1923 semester.
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The county board agrees to build a new school at Cedar Grove
On August 11, 1922, under superintendent Claytor, the county board agreed to build a modern school at Cedar Grove once state building-fund money came. The building was accepted in January 1924 and named Aycock School. Carrboro's new school, planned under the same program, was already going up in 1921.
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Hillsboro finishes its new $100,000 school building
The town's new brick school on West Tryon Street was reported ready within a week in September 1922, though a shortage of desks held up the opening. By early 1923 it housed grades one through eleven for the consolidated Hillsboro schools under principal J. A. Abernethy.
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Houston J. Walker and Allen H. Walker Sr. open Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough
Houston J. Walker and his son Allen H. Walker Sr. opened Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough, buying a Model T Ford and a Reo hearse. The family added branches in Chapel Hill in 1937 and Mebane in 1945.
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Black clubwomen sell two-cent stamps across the state to build the first cottage at Efland
The state federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, sold two-cent stamps across the state in November 1922 to raise $5,000 for the first cottage of the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland, on land it had bought the year before.
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William C. Coker's committee is put in charge of the care of the whole campus
After Coker drew his 'Plan A' for siting dormitories on the campus's east side, the grounds and buildings committee in December 1922 gave him and a subcommittee charge of the care and improvement of the entire campus, with its own budget. The nomination calls him in effect the university's first resident planner.
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Trinity's William P. Few proposes a joint medical school with UNC
After the trustees' site committee split on December 16, Few met the committee at the governor's mansion and offered a four-year school with two years at Chapel Hill and two in Durham near Watts Hospital, backed by $1 million from each side and a Trinity endowment. Morrison endorsed it that night, but Baptist protest over church and state killed it within weeks.
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"Judge" Brockwell's cabin at the edge of Battle Park burns
The cabin known as "Judge" Brockwell's, on the edge of Battle Park, burns down. Early in 1924 coach Bill Fetzer bought the plot in the new Gimghoul development and planned a Colonial house there.
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A Durham man named Pollard builds a brick duplex at 738 East Franklin Street
The buff-brick, two-story duplex with a two-level front porch and sleeping-porch ells may have housed the Pollards for a time but served mostly as rental housing. It changed owners several times before the Lacock family bought it in the 1940s.
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A hard-surface road links Chapel Hill and Durham
A new eighteen-foot concrete road ran from the center of Chapel Hill to Durham, credited to trustee John Sprunt Hill as a state highway commissioner. Franklin Street merchants declined to pay for paving its edges, so mud borders remained.
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A two-story brick store block is built at 173-175 East Franklin Street
The two-bay, brick-veneered commercial building with corbelled brickwork is reported to date from 1923. It had been altered by 1992.
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Albert Coates joins the law faculty at Chapel Hill
Coates, a university graduate with a Harvard law degree, joined the law faculty in 1923. The schools he ran for police officers and sheriffs grew into the Institute of Government.
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Albert Ray Newsome joins the UNC history faculty
Newsome, a 1915 UNC graduate, returned to Chapel Hill from graduate study at Michigan as an assistant professor of history and stayed until 1926.
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Chapel Hill Baptists build a Neoclassical church at Franklin and Columbia streets
Leaving their church a few blocks west, the Baptists built a tan brick and stone church with an Ionic portico on a raised basement at the corner of West Franklin and South Columbia streets, facing the campus. Frank Milburn designed it, probably his last Chapel Hill job.
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Delta Kappa Epsilon completes the first of the large new fraternity houses
In the move off the old campus row, DKE finished the first of the big Colonial Revival chapter houses in 1923; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Chi soon followed, and the South Columbia Street court had five houses by 1926.
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Ellis Store and post office opens
Allen A. Ellis built a new crossroads store.
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Fire guts the upper story of Edward Kidder Graham's former house
A 1923 fire burned out the upper floor of the late president's house, then rented to faculty, and destroyed many of Graham's personal papers stored there. The house still stood in the twenty-first century.
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Fitch-Riggs Lumber Company buys Andrews and Lloyd's Carrboro lumber business
In 1923 the Mebane firm Fitch-Riggs took over Andrews and Lloyd, a small Carrboro lumber business with one employee, and R. Bernice Fitch ran the Carrboro plant. It traded as Fitch-Riggs Lumber Co. into 1925 and as Fitch Lumber Co. by 1927, and by 1953 it was Carrboro's oldest small concern, with 20 men, a planing mill and a coal yard.
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John Sprunt Hill chairs the trustees' buildings committee
As a university trustee, John Sprunt Hill chaired the committee on university buildings during the campus building program of 1923 to 1931.
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John T. Fowler buys the Model Market at auction
After Sam Pickard died, John T. Fowler bought his Model Market at auction. Fowler's sons enlarged it after 1925, and Robert L. Fowler later moved it across the street.
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Lettie Glass serves as acting superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools
Lettie Glass ran the Chapel Hill schools as acting superintendent while Fred W. Morrison was away, and again in 1923-1924. She is the only woman in the book's list of superintendents.
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Louis Graves founds the Orange Printshop in Chapel Hill
Graves set up the Orange Printshop in 1923 alongside his Chapel Hill Weekly and leased it to W. M. Pugh in 1940. It printed books and magazines and set a record for delivering the state Session Laws.
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Murphey School is built in brick on the Durham-Hillsboro road
Murphey School, a hip-roofed brick consolidated school for white children named for Archibald D. Murphey, was built in 1923 on the Durham-Hillsboro road (Old NC 10). H. C. Linthicum drew the plans and W. H. Woods of Durham built it for $8,995. The school closed in 1959; the road nearby is spelled Murphy School Road.
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Orange County begins merging its one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones
Claytor started the county's first round of consolidation in 1923, folding small schools into larger ones and seeking local tax elections, with a budget request of $92,100. Efland, Aycock and Hillsborough were to carry grades one through eleven and the rest grades one through seven.
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Parts of the old academy land are subdivided as Oak Ridge and the Murray property
Portions of the Alliance tract were laid out as the Oak Ridge Development in 1923 and as the Murray property in 1924. Together they make up the west end of West Hillsborough.
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Robert W. Madry becomes the University's full-time publicity man
Persuaded by Louis Round Wilson that the University had to tell its story better, Chase hired Madry, an alumnus then writing for the New York Herald, as its first full-time publicity man.
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Students place the first marker at Governor Thomas Burke's grave
A committee of university summer-school students working with the Boone Trail Highway Association cleared the unmarked grave of Governor Thomas Burke near Hillsborough and set a stone with an iron tablet at its head.
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The Order of Gimghouls plats its Chapel Hill subdivision with racial deed restrictions
The Junior Order of Gimghouls subdivided its land east of campus into house lots, with a plat recorded in Orange County Plat Book 1, page 51. The original deed covenants carried the racial restrictions standard for the period, along with setbacks and a requirement that the order review house plans.
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The Pope Mattress Company builds a two-story brick store on East Franklin Street
The Pope Mattress Company, mostly a furniture dealer, left Columbia Street for a large two-story brick building it had just put up on the north side of East Franklin. Berman's department store moved into it in 1926.
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The county school board builds a teachers' home at Murphey School from the unfinished Mount Hope School
Instead of finishing a new Mount Hope School that was to be merged into Murphey, the county board had the partly built schoolhouse taken apart and its materials carried to the Murphey site for a seven-room teachers' home. W. H. Woods built it for $800 in labor, paid with money from the sale of the old University School; the frame bungalow is the only teacherage left standing in Orange County.
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The faculty turns down church-paid Bible teachers at the university
Answering the churches, the faculty committee on educational policy, in a report drafted with Chase, refused to place instructors on campus who owed their posts and pay to a denomination, and warned that such a program would cut into the work of the church colleges. It offered instead Bible courses taught from a literary and historical standpoint by faculty the university chose.
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Thomas C. Atwood and Arthur C. Nash form the firm Atwood and Nash, Architects and Engineers
The firm served as the university's local architects and engineers through the 1920s building campaign, working under McKim, Mead and White's William Kendall. It kept its office in the Alumni Building and another in Durham.
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UNC and the North Carolina College for Women agree to limit women to UNC's upper levels
After a quarrel over Chase's remarks and a meeting with President Julius I. Foust at a Durham hotel, the two schools agreed that women would enter UNC's graduate and professional schools but not its first two years, even if they lived in Chapel Hill, and that transfers from NCCW would need NCCW's consent.
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William C. Coker gives the Chapel Hill Country Club land for a clubhouse and golf course
By early 1923 Coker had given the new Chapel Hill Country Club its grounds south of the campus. The clubhouse went up that spring and the golf course over the next two years. The land later passed to the university and is used for tennis courts and a greenway park; the Laurel Hill subdivision was laid out along the course.
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Hillsboro's first public schoolhouse is gone and its lot is set aside for an athletic field
Once the new consolidated school opened, the grounds where the old Hillsboro schoolhouse had stood were to become the new school's athletic field, according to a February 1923 report.
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Trustees ask $350,000 to start a four-year medical college, and the legislature ignores it
With the joint plan dead, the trustees heard delegations from Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham, chose no site, and voted to ask the General Assembly for $350,000 toward a four-year medical college. The legislature did not act; in June 1923 the trustees voted for a four-year program at Chapel Hill.
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The Chapel Hill Weekly publishes its first issue
Louis Graves published the first issue of his newspaper, the Chapel Hill Weekly, on March 2, 1923. He owned and edited it until 1954.
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A Tar Heel special edition attacks coeducation
While Chase sought $224,000 for a women's dormitory, students voted 937 to 173 against it in a Tar Heel poll, and on March 14 a special edition ran editorials headed "Women Students Not Wanted Here." Chase answered in a long statement read at chapel and printed in the paper.
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Carrboro's old schoolhouse is moved and split between the Methodist parsonage and church
The Carrboro school replaced by the new graded school was being moved in March 1923. Part became the Methodist parsonage at 114 West Main Street, which served until the Methodists built a new parsonage on Oak Street in 1955, and part was added to the Methodist church for Sunday school rooms, with John T. Squires as contractor.
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John Sprunt Hill lets the building contract for the Carolina Inn
John Sprunt Hill, for the incorporators of the Carolina Club, let the contract for the Carolina Inn to H. L. Smith of Durham. The old Graves house on the site, at the west gate of the campus, was to be moved south of the inn and joined to it for use as a student boarding house.
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The 1923 legislature gives UNC $1.7 million for buildings
The University got about 15 percent of a $10.7 million bond issue for state institutions, letting the building program go on, but its operating budget was cut 7 percent below the request and it got $667,300 less than the $2.3 million in construction money sought.
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Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university
Baptist, Presbyterian, Moravian, Episcopal and Methodist leaders met in President Chase's office with the faculty committee on educational policy. All favored nonsectarian Bible courses; after a day of argument over who would choose and pay the teachers, the churchmen agreed on courses taught off campus by teachers the denominations selected, with credit from the university.
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Chapel Hill aldermen order a cemetery survey, burial permits and a deed from the university
After noting in December 1922 that the cemetery needed more room, the town board on May 10, 1923 told the town manager to survey the grounds, begin burial permits and obtain a deed from the university showing that the town owned the cemetery. Nothing is recorded to have come of it.
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The Chapel Hill Country Club opens its new clubhouse
Members gathered with basket suppers for the opening of the club's new house, three years after fire destroyed the first one. By late 1924 the club was clearing the fairways of its golf course.
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Sutton's Drug Store opens on Franklin Street
J. L. Sutton and J. L. Alderman, a UNC pharmacy graduate, opened the Sutton and Alderman drugstore with a soda fountain in the Strowd Building on Franklin Street, in space vacated by Jack Sparrow's shop. As Sutton's Drug Store it marked its centennial in 2023 as a downtown gathering place.
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The commissioners issue $65,000 in bonds to pay off the county's bank loans
Road spending in the early 1920s outran taxes and kept the board borrowing from banks. On August 6, 1923 it voted $65,000 in bonds to clear the existing debt, which the book calls the first time the county funded its deficits.
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Bayard Wootten photographs the Playmakers' outdoor Taming of the Shrew
Bayard Wootten of New Bern came to Chapel Hill to photograph the Carolina Playmakers' outdoor production of The Taming of the Shrew, the start of years of Playmakers work. That month she also urged the University to have aerial photographs made of the growing campus.
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Law dean Lucius McGehee dies
McGehee, dean since 1910 and the man who brought the casebook method to Chapel Hill, broke down weeks before the fall term and died in Richmond in early October. Atwell C. McIntosh became acting dean, and the trustees gave his estate $2,000 for burial and debts.
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Julian Carr's Occoneechee Farm is sold at auction in small farms
Occoneechee Farm, divided into small farms along the Durham-Greensboro highway a mile from Hillsboro, was sold at auction with its personal property. Carr had already sold his Holstein herd to Chapel Hill dairyman C. H. Weaver.
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Governor Morrison offers the law deanship to Justice Walter P. Stacy, who declines
At a trustees' executive committee meeting in early November, Morrison bypassed Chase and offered the deanship to Stacy on the spot. Stacy turned it down, and Chase saw the move as an intrusion on the president's role.
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The Chapel Hill chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy puts up four Jefferson Davis Highway markers
The Chapel Hill UDC chapter, with Mrs. W. S. Bernard in charge, marked the state road from Durham to Pittsboro as the Jefferson Davis Highway. The four signs stood at the one-mile bridge on the Durham road, at Andrews corner, at the new Baptist church and near the west gate of the campus.
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A gas station and garage is built at 136-138 North Churton Street
A low gas station and garage, with a front-gabled canopy that sheltered the pumps, is built at 136-138 North Churton Street in 1924. A concrete-block wing was added on the south side after 1943.
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Albert Coates revives the Law School Association
Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office.
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Arthur C. Nash renovates Old West
Nash's rebuilding of the 1822 dormitory, done alongside the work on Old East, left the brick walls as about the only original material.
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Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove and named for the governor
The county built the original eight-room Aycock School at Cedar Grove on land bought from Carl C. McDade and named it for former governor Charles B. Aycock.
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Carrboro Baptist Church completes its brick church at Greensboro and Main
The mill-town congregation borrowed $50,000 to build a brick church at the corner of Greensboro and Main streets, paying off the debt in 1942; the building is now the Town's Century Center.
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Cleveland Lindsay puts up a nine-foot-wide brick building on Carrboro's Main Street
Cleveland Lindsay of the Damascus section built a one-story brick building nine feet wide and about 50 feet deep next to J. D. Webb's store, near the depot. He would not say what it was for, and the Chapel Hill Weekly called it Carrboro's "mystery house."
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Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll and Eleanor Carroll build a house on Ridge Lane in Gimghoul
Dudley DeWitt Carroll, dean of UNC's commerce school, and his wife Eleanor Elliott Carroll had a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a two-story Colonial Revival house with a garage on Ridge Lane, among the first houses in the new Gimghoul subdivision.
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Daniel L. Grant, UNC's first alumni secretary, builds a house on Glandon Drive
Daniel L. Grant, the first secretary of the UNC Alumni Association, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house in the new Gimghoul subdivision, one of the five houses finished there in 1924.
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Efland gets a three-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children
Efland's three-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children went up in 1924-25 (Rosenwald budget year 1924-25) at a cost of $4,810: $900 from the Rosenwald Fund, $200 from Black residents and $3,710 in public money. The county board put the $501 from its August 4, 1924 sale of the old Efland school toward it and inspected the building while it was under way that October.
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Eugene Andrews turns his West Franklin Street home into a funeral home
Andrews converted his residence into a funeral home. After his death his widow, Nellie Andrews, kept it running.
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First Baptist Church of Hillsborough replaces its steeple
In 1924 the steeple of the First Baptist Church at West King and South Wake streets was replaced; the bell tower now carries a tall four-sided copper steeple.
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Gerald W. Johnson heads the university's newly independent journalism department
After Louis Graves left in 1924, the university expanded journalism into an independent department with Johnson, an editorial writer, at its head. He left for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1926.
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Guy B. Johnson begins work at the Institute for Research in Social Science
Guy B. Johnson and his wife Guion Griffis Johnson began working at UNC's new Institute for Research in Social Science in 1924. He was one of its original research assistants.
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Hatcher Hughes wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Hatcher Hughes, a UNC graduate and former instructor in English there, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hell-Bent fer Heaven, a play about a mountain preacher. He was then teaching at Columbia University in New York.
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J. F. Sturdivant completes a master's thesis on the Carrboro mill village
In 1924 J. F. Sturdivant finished a UNC master's thesis studying Carrboro as a small mill village. It found every house painted and about two-thirds with electric lights, and it counted 197 workers at Mill No. 4 and 81 at Mill No. 7 in the early 1920s.
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Jesse Nevilles builds a cow barn and milking barn on the family farm
Bryant Nevilles's son Jesse turned the log homestead farm into a dairy, adding a gable-roofed cow barn in 1924 and a frame milking barn in 1925 that still held its machinery in 1992. His son Lacy added a concrete-block milk cooling house and two silos in the 1950s.
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Kennon Cheek helps negotiate the land swap that brought Hackney's school to Northside
Cheek's daughter Marian Cheek Jackson said he was instrumental in negotiating the 1924 land swap that moved Hackney's Educational and Industrial School from South Merritt Mill Road into the Northside community.
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Odum's new institute makes county government its first study
The Institute for Research in Social Science chose county government as its first project, with E. C. Branson leading researchers who examined forty-three counties. Odum shared the findings in 1925 with Governor McLean's study commission, and McLean put county finance reforms to the 1927 legislature.
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Orange County Training School opens a Rosenwald campus
The Orange County Training School's new brick building for Black students rose on land given by Henry Strowd at the north end of Church Street in Northside, Chapel Hill. Its cornerstone was laid on Labor Day 1924 and it opened late that year; the Rosenwald Fund gave $1,500 of its $23,112 cost, Black residents $500.
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Public health in rural Orange County
County nurses, clinics, the district health department and sanitation work reached into rural Orange County from 1924: the campaigns against typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis and polio through 1955.
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St. Matthew's Church celebrates the hundredth anniversary of its organization
The parish marked a century since its 1824 founding with an evening service. Speakers included Samuel S. Nash of Tarboro, and two great-great-granddaughters of Thomas Ruffin, who gave the site, attended.
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The 1924 Sanborn map shows a school for Black children on West Orange Street
The 1924 Sanborn map records a 'colored school' on the West Orange Street lot where a Prince Hall Masonic lodge was later built.
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The Carolina Inn is built
John Sprunt Hill built the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill.
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The Tankersley house on East Franklin Street is torn down
Frances Adele Tankersley, tired of the business district's noise, built a new house east of the Presbyterian church, and her old house was razed. Three stores later went up on the lot.
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The building at 111 North Churton Street is in use as a drug store, later James Pharmacy
The yellow-brick building at 111 North Churton Street appears as a drug store on the 1924 Sanborn map. It keeps a 1940s carrara glass sign reading James Pharmacy and much of its original drug store fittings inside.
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UNC and the state welfare board win a Rockefeller grant for Black welfare work
In 1924 the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare and the University of North Carolina received a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial grant for a demonstration program in Black welfare, which opened on January 1, 1925, as the board's Division of Negro Work under Lawrence A. Oxley. Charlotte Hawkins Brown sat on its advisory commission, and Oxley visited the Efland Home.
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UNC national championships beyond women’s soccer
National titles won by Carolina teams other than women's soccer: the 1924 basketball team's later Helms recognition, men's basketball's six NCAA championships from 1957, women's basketball in 1994, and the field hockey, lacrosse, men's soccer and women's tennis titles since 1981.
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UNC opens a residence hall named for Charles B. Aycock
The university occupied Aycock Residence Hall on the Lower Quad in 1924. The name stood until the trustees removed it in July 2020, citing his racist views and actions.
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UNC’s 1924 basketball team earns later Helms recognition
UNC’s unbeaten 1923–24 team was retrospectively named national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1943.
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Union Chapel is taken down and its materials go into McDuffie Baptist Church
Once the brick Carrboro Baptist Church was finished, the old frame chapel was dismantled and its materials used to build a church on N.C. 86 north of Chapel Hill, named for early Carrboro Baptist minister McDuffie.
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University architect Thomas C. Atwood builds a duplex on Ridge Lane for his firm's workers
Thomas C. Atwood, supervising architect for the 1920s campus building program, built a one-story frame duplex in the Gimghoul subdivision to house employees of Atwood and Nash. It stayed a duplex until the 1970s, when it became a single-family house.
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W. E. Atkins of the Atwood and Nash firm builds a Craftsman cottage on Gimghoul Road
W. E. Atkins, who worked for the university architects Atwood and Nash, has a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a one-and-a-half-story Craftsman cottage, said to be the first house on Gimghoul Road. He soon sold it to economics professor Earl Peacock.
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William Courtney's Yellow House serves as Hillsborough's telephone exchange
The 1924 Sanborn map shows the old Courtney house at 141 East King Street in use as a telephone exchange.
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Work begins on Graham Memorial on the site of the burned University Inn
Construction of Graham Memorial started where the University Inn had stood until the 1921 fire. By 1928 only its social room was in use.
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Community Club hires a nurse to serve Chapel Hill's Black community
The health department of the Chapel Hill Community Club engaged a Black nurse, known as Nurse Compton and formerly of Lincoln Hospital, who began on January 1, 1924, visiting homes, examining children at the Black schools and organizing clean-up campaigns. By May 1926 the town had taken over part of her salary and she worked under Health Officer Nathan.
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Trustees adopt higher law school standards over Governor Morrison's objection
At a four-hour meeting in the governor's office, attended by about half the trustees, 45 of them lawyers, Morrison argued against stiffer entrance rules, but a voice vote approved Chase's plans. The board put off naming a dean rather than accept Chase's out-of-state choice.
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Fire destroys the Pickwick Theatre on Franklin Street
An early-morning fire burned the Pickwick movie theatre and the O'Kelly pressing club next door, and sparks threatened the fraternity houses nearby. Until it was rebuilt, films were shown in Gerrard Hall.
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Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive
President Chase, Albert Coates and student body president Julian Allsbrook held a special chapel meeting in Memorial Hall to restart the stalled fund drive, with plans cut back to a smaller building whose exterior was under way. In March Coates set out a University Life Unification Plan centered on the building.
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General Albert J. Bowley warns of campus radicals in a Memorial Hall address
Two weeks after he had berated extension director Chester D. Snell at a Raleigh luncheon, the commander of Fort Bragg spoke for nearly an hour in Memorial Hall on the occasion of Washington's birthday before a crowd of about 3,000. He repeated his charges that Soviet-backed agitators were working through colleges and welfare groups, and his closing call for an ROTC unit at the university drew long applause.
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The county board moves $30,000 in building money to Efland and sets the order of its new schools
The board shifted $15,000 each from the White Cross and Caldwell building funds to Efland, reasoning that Efland had the greater need, a local tax with an eight-month term, and a paved road for school trucks. It then fixed the building order as Efland, White Cross, Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell.
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The rebuilt Pickwick Theatre opens on Franklin Street
S. J. Brockwell's new fireproof Pickwick, built on the site of the burned one, opened with seats for 750, and crowds were turned away from the first show. W. S. Roberson ran it under lease.
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A new consolidated school for white children is built at Efland
The board let the Efland contract to A. R. Davis for $21,388, with steam heat by Dermott of Durham, placed the school east of the highway and made the contractor replace inferior brick. The board inspected and accepted the building in March 1925, and John Efland paid $1,135 for the old white schoolhouse.
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A new consolidated school is built at Orange Grove
The board let the Orange Grove contract to A. R. Davis for $13,600 and set the school about half a mile from the old one on the road to Hillsboro. It inspected and accepted the building in March 1925.
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A new consolidated school is built at White Cross on the Saxapahaw road
After neighbors rejected a site at the crossroads near Leuco Lloyd's, the board placed the new White Cross school on the north side of the Chapel Hill and Saxapahaw road and let the contract to A. R. Davis for $14,436. It accepted the building in March 1925 and sold the old White Cross schoolhouse to F. J. Eubanks for $250.
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Trustees elect Merton L. Ferson dean of the law school
Ferson, an Iowan who had been law dean at Washington University in St. Louis, won with three times the votes of his nearest rival, ending months of resistance from trustees who wanted a North Carolinian.
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The county board orders its first school buses
The board ordered ten trucks, six GMC, two Reo and two Chevrolet, with bus bodies from the Carolina Body Company of Greensboro, to carry children to the new consolidated schools. At an August hearing in the courthouse some residents urged the commissioners not to sign the notes for the buses, but no action was taken against them.
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Odum's Institute for Research in Social Science is organized at UNC
The Institute for Research in Social Science was organized at Chapel Hill on June 30, 1924, for the cooperative study of social problems arising from state and regional conditions. Odum founded it with help from the Rockefeller Fund, and it is now the Odum Institute.
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Trustees overrule the faculty and give a diploma to a senior who took a drink
The faculty, bound by a trustee rule against any drinking, had denied a diploma to a senior who celebrated the end of exams with a drink or two. His class petitioned the trustees, who reversed the faculty, leaving professors feeling their disciplinary role undercut.
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The Standard, a movie theatre owned by and for Black residents, opens on West Franklin Street
Chapel Hill's new movie house, owned by and run for Black residents, opened with two crowded shows. Its owners were tailor Durward O'Kelly, builder Charlie Brooks and brick mason Jesse Kirkland.
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Henry and Matilda Guthrie's Franklin Street lot, with its moving-picture house, is advertised for foreclosure
A trustee advertised for public sale on August 16, 1924 the Franklin Street land of Henry and Matilda Guthrie, which held two houses, a building used as a moving-picture house, two stores and a garage. The Guthries had bought it from Mary McCauley Lindsay and D. McCauley and fallen behind on the note.
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Engineering professor Ralph Trimble and his wife Hazel move into their new Gimghoul house
Ralph M. Trimble, the UNC engineering professor who surveyed the lots of the Gimghoul subdivision, and his wife Hazel move into one of its first houses, built by contractor Charlie Martindale on Glandon Drive.
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The Orange Printshop moves into a new brick building off Rosemary Street
The Orange Printshop, which printed Louis Graves's Chapel Hill Weekly, moved into a new brick building made for it on the lot behind Patterson Brothers drug store. It added new presses and machinery with the move.
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Chase opens the year with his address on the university's intellectual responsibility
Speaking to more than 2,200 students in Memorial Hall at the start of the fall term, Chase answered the university's critics without naming them: the attack on intellectual freedom fell on biology and the social sciences, and suppressing debate led to sterility. He offered a test for responsible free speech and defended the building program ahead of the legislature. The talk was printed more widely than any of his others.
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Rameses, the live ram mascot, makes his debut for Carolina
Head cheerleader Vic Huggins won athletic department approval and $25 to buy a ram as a mascot. Rameses first appeared at the football game against the Virginia Military Institute, which Carolina won 3-0.
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Christmas seal money pays for tuberculosis care and a free clinic in Chapel Hill
The Community Club's seal sale committee reported that seal money had sent an Orange County man to a sanatorium and paid $450 toward the nurse working among Black residents, who inoculated 68 people for typhoid and brought 36 patients to a free tuberculosis clinic.
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The Gimghouls sell their old lodge lot on Rosemary Lane
W. S. Roberson bought the Gimghouls' lot at Rosemary Lane and Boundary Street, with the old lodge to stand until the order finished its new building at Piney Prospect. The old lodge had been torn down by July 1926, and John Lasley's family had moved into a new house on the lot by that September.
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The county board sells four rural schools closed by consolidation
Consolidation had emptied the Fairfield, Fairview, South View and Sunnyside schoolhouses, and the superintendent was ordered to sell them. Fairfield went to the trustees of Fairfield Presbyterian Church for $200 and Sunnyside to Ivan Lloyd for $115.
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Fire on East Main Street in Carrboro leads to brick rebuilding
Early on December 3, 1924, a fire that started in Lueco Lloyd's boarding house burned five frame buildings on East Main Street in Carrboro before it was stopped at Marks's brick store. By late December Lloyd was preparing to put up two brick stores on the site, and the rebuilt block was brick.
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A UNC study counts forty-seven rural schools and ninety teachers in Orange County
Nita Andrews's 1925 master's study of the county schools found forty-seven rural schools with ninety teachers, about half of them holding only elementary certificates, and five school trucks that cost $1,680.70 a year to run plus $783 for drivers.
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A narrow brick store goes up at 106 East Main Street
The narrow unit at 106 East Main Street went up when the block was rebuilt in brick after the December 1924 fire; the 1983 inventory remembers it as built for the post office, though in December 1924 the burned-out post office was to move across the street into Mrs. Stone's new building. Beside it stood the R. H. Marks dry goods store, the town's first brick commercial building.
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A state pay commission created at Governor McLean's request questions university faculty about their work
At McLean's request the 1925 legislature set up a commission on state pay. Its questionnaires asked faculty to account for their working hours and leave, and the attorney general ruled that its work covered university positions.
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A two-story brick store block rises in stages at 114 to 120 East Main Street
Beginning in the mid-1920s brick buildings replaced the frame stores at the east end of the block, among them the two-story row at 114 to 120 East Main Street. Samply Merritt's drug store held the east end and Gurnie H. Ray ran the Melba movie theater at 118.
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A. C. Howell serves as the university's first secretary of the faculty
Almonte Charles Howell, an English professor at the University of North Carolina, was the first secretary of the faculty, holding the post for twenty years.
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Alfred Lawrence helps found the Chapel Hill School of Religion
Lawrence took part in organizing the Chapel Hill School of Religion in 1925-26; funded by the town's churches, it opened its first non-credit courses in the fall of 1926. His papers hold material on it from 1925 and 1926.
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An Order of the Eastern Star chapter is established in Hillsborough
A chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Masonic order open to women, was established in Hillsborough. Chapel Hill's chapter followed in 1947.
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Arthur C. Nash renovates New East and New West
The two 1858-61 buildings were reworked under Nash, part of a series of renovations that left only the brick shells of the early campus buildings.
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Black clubwomen open the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland
After years of fundraising, the North Carolina federation of Black women's clubs led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown opened a home and school for Black girls on a 143-acre farm on US 70 at Efland. The state gave only occasional small grants; the federation's board voted in October 1938 to close within five months, and the home closed on March 15, 1939. The state later opened a training school for Black girls, first at Rocky Mount and then at Dobbs Farm near Kinston.
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Brodie Thompson builds a house for historian Henry McGilbert Wagstaff
For Henry and Mary Wagstaff, Thompson built a two-story frame house at 206 North Boundary Street with a fanlit entrance, a porch with turned balusters, a high hipped roof and a long side porch toward Rosemary Street.
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Brodie Thompson builds a house on East Rosemary Street for George and Sarah Pickard
Contractor Brodie Thompson builds a two-story, five-bay Colonial Revival house for George and Sarah Pickard at the southeast corner of East Rosemary and North Boundary streets.
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Cameron MacRae builds the MacRae building at Franklin and Henderson streets
Cameron F. MacRae, son of Robert Strange MacRae, put up the MacRae building on the northeast corner. By 1928 it held Clarence Pickard's grocery, the Jefferson-Standard insurance office and a basement barbershop.
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Charles Martindale builds a bungalow in the Gimghoul colony for attorney L. J. Phipps
Contractor Charles Martindale nears completion of a Craftsman bungalow in the Gimghoul colony for Chapel Hill attorney L. J. Phipps and his wife Vivian. Its floor-length windows and front terrace are noted in later surveys.
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Dean James F. Royster refuses Shaw University debaters seats in the gallery
When the debate team of Shaw University, a Black college in Raleigh, asked only to sit in the gallery and watch Carolina's debaters meet Washington and Lee, Royster, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said no, fearing it would reflect poorly on the university.
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Fire destroys the building that housed Foister's Camera Shop
The building burned, and Robert W. Foister moved across Franklin Street, with a photo laboratory upstairs and a student supply and soda shop below. A new building on the site later held the University Cafeteria.
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George Washington Carver speaks in Gerrard Hall
The Tuskegee scientist visited the campus, speaking from the platform of Gerrard Hall and showing a display at the YMCA, without the outcry that met James Weldon Johnson's classroom visits two years later.
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Hillsborough women organize the Hillsborough Garden Club
Twelve Hillsborough women met in an old school building in 1925 to form a garden club, and began by cleaning lots in the business district and planting crepe myrtles along the downtown streets. The club later sponsored the founding of the Orange County Historical Museum.
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Lueco Lloyd builds the brick store that houses Hearn's grocery
After the December 1924 fire that began in the Pendergraph boarding house, Lueco Lloyd put up a one-story brick building at 102 East Main Street as rental property, with T. C. Thompson as contractor. His only tenant was John Hearn, who had moved his grocery from Chapel Hill after World War I and ran what by 1983 was Carrboro's oldest business.
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Nash designs Spencer Hall, the university's first dormitory for women
Spencer Hall, designed by Nash and under construction in 1924, opened in 1925 as the first dormitory for women at the University of North Carolina; the trustees gave it Cornelia Phillips Spencer's name in 1927. It was one of a series of dormitories he designed on the campus through the 1920s.
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Orange County still runs twenty-one one-teacher white schools
Although buses and cars were making consolidation possible, Orange County still had twenty-one one-teacher schools for white children in 1925, and several for Black children.
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Southern Railway adds a larger freight house at the Carrboro depot
In 1925 the railroad built a bigger freight house at the Carrboro station, following its 1913 depot and freight shed, to handle the growing traffic in goods for Carrboro and Chapel Hill.
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The Bank of Chapel Hill buys the Peoples Bank
Chapel Hill's second bank, the Peoples Bank, ran from about 1912 under presidents Vernon Howell and J. D. Webb. The Bank of Chapel Hill bought its assets in 1925.
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The Dialectic Society condemns the Glee Club for singing to a mixed audience at Hampton
The Dialectic Literary Society censured the university Glee Club for performing before Black and white listeners together at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, a Black college in Virginia.
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The Order of Gimghouls begins building its castle
Work on the Gimghouls' castle off the end of Gimghoul Road began in 1925: some 1,300 tons of stone were hauled to the site, stonemasons came from the Waldensian settlement at Valdese, and Chapel Hill builder Charlie Lee Martindale was general contractor. The order held its first gathering there in May 1926.
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The four Bivins brothers start a woodworking plant in Hillsborough
The Bivins brothers opened a plant in Hillsborough in 1925 that first made tobacco baskets and later, as Orange Furniture Craftsmen, upholstered furniture. It became the White Furniture Company's Hillsborough branch.
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The legislature puts university spending under the governor's budget control
Governor Angus W. McLean's plan, passed by the 1925 General Assembly, made the governor director of the budget and chair of a stronger Advisory Budget Commission. Moving money between accounts in an institution's budget now needed approval in Raleigh, and the university's budget stayed under review through the biennium. As both budget director and chair of the trustees, the governor gained far more say over the university.
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The new chemistry building, Venable Hall, is dedicated
The university dedicated its new chemistry building in 1925 and named it Venable Hall while Venable was still teaching there.
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The old Blanche Hosiery mill building on Lindsay Street is cut into two houses
Blanche Hosiery's small frame mill, about 50 by 24 feet, was already a dwelling by 1915. It was sawn in half to make the mirror-image cottages at 102 and 104 Lindsay Street, which stayed rental houses into the 1970s.
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The state farm census records the Efland Home's first crops
The 1925 North Carolina farm census found the Efland Home's farm manager, staff and girls working 33 acres of corn, tobacco, wheat, cotton and Irish potatoes. Within a year the home was also keeping pigs, chickens and dairy cows for its own table.
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Manning Hall is dedicated as the law school's new home
Supreme court justices, superior court judges, lawyers and alumni, 200 or more, came for the dedication and lunched at the new Carolina Inn with John Sprunt Hill as host.
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J. Cheshire Webb takes options on the Hillsborough quarry farm that supplied stone for Duke
Webb showed geologist Jasper L. Stuckey the old quarry near Hillsborough that had supplied flagstones, and at the request of Duke's business manager Frank Brown he took purchase options on the quarry farm, signed January 31, 1925. The land was bought under the option for Duke University on March 31.
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Brodie S. Carr opens a grocery in a small filling-station building north of Hillsboro
Out of work after losing his timekeeper job at Eno Cotton Mills, Brodie S. Carr opened a grocery in a small frame service-station building on the northern edge of Hillsboro. It grew into Carr's Super Market.
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Bruce Strowd opens his new Ford dealership at Franklin and Columbia streets
Strowd Motor Company formally opened its new Ford sales and service building at 100 West Franklin Street, on the corner of Columbia, with a dance and contests. Chapel Hill's first automobile dealer had outgrown his quarters; the two-story brick building, one of the largest downtown, went up in 1924 on the old Carr place, with the showroom and service area below and a paint and body shop above.
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Chase speaks against the Poole antievolution resolution at a legislative hearing
At an evening hearing of the House education committee, moved to the packed House chamber, Chase was the only college president to speak. He argued for freedom of teaching under the state constitution and asked why evolution could be preached on Sunday but not taught on weekdays. The committee split 11 to 11, and chairman Henry G. Connor Jr. broke the tie for an unfavorable report.
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The state House defeats the Poole antievolution resolution
After two days of debate, the House voted 70 to 41 against Henry Connor's compromise bill and then 67 to 46 against the minority report on David Scott Poole's resolution, which would have declared it harmful for any tax-paid teacher to teach human descent from lower life as fact. Former speaker Walter Murphy's speech was credited with settling the outcome.
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Harmony School patrons protest a merger with Aycock School
A delegation from Harmony School went before the board to object to consolidating their school with the new Aycock School at Cedar Grove. The board told them no such step was planned, though Harmony was merged into Aycock six years later.
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E. A. Brown sells his Chapel Hill furniture and hardware business to Pendergraft and McCauley
E. A. Brown sold his furniture and hardware business to Joseph W. Pendergraft, his assistant of seven years, and Thomas H. McCauley, who ran it as Pendergraft & McCauley.
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The Mayo family's quarry land near Hillsborough is sold to Duke's land agent for $500
A deed at the Orange County courthouse records that Duke land agent Murray Jones paid the Mayo family $500 in March 1925 for land with a working stone quarry, the source of the stone for Duke's new campus. According to family accounts, George Mayo refused to sell until he was jailed and signed so his family would not go hungry.
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Orange County joins neighboring counties in summer schools for its Black and white teachers
The board agreed to pay a share of a summer session for Black teachers held jointly with Durham and Person counties, and to send its white teachers to a session shared with Person. Pender, then a young teacher, attended the white teachers' session.
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Lawyer J. Clyde Ray finishes a two-story office building with a restaurant on Churton Street
J. Clyde Ray built a two-story brick building, about $10,000 with its lot, with his law offices on one side of the ground floor and a restaurant run by Arthur Crabtree on the other. It also held six offices, a lodge room and a rest room for women shopping in town.
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Patrick L. Clayton sells his farm northwest of Hillsboro to James B. Duke's agents for $4,000
The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that Patrick L. Clayton, who had paid $200 for a 70-acre farm about a mile northwest of Hillsboro twenty years earlier, had sold it to representatives of James B. Duke for $4,000 for its building stone. Architects and builders had judged the stone suitable for the new Duke University.
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The Farmers and Merchants Bank moves into a new building on North Churton Street
The Farmers and Merchants Bank moved into a new building of granite and brick on the east side of Churton Street, between the old bank building and Mitchell's hardware store. The building cost about $5,000.
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The University buys the Chapel Hill Telephone Company
The University bought the Chapel Hill Telephone Company, reportedly for $25,000 to $30,000, to keep it from outside buyers. The exchange stayed for the time being on Henderson Street near the post office, with a later move planned to the old Strowd garage.
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The old Caldwell schoolhouse is sold as a new consolidated school is built
When the county built a new consolidated Caldwell School in 1925, the board sold the old one-teacher schoolhouse and its site to R. E. Clements for $160 on May 4, 1925.
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The new Chapel of the Cross church is consecrated
The Upjohn building, from then on called the Church, was consecrated during Alfred Lawrence's rectorship. The parish timeline notes that male students in the campus ministry resisted including women students.
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George Pickard's heirs sell their Columbia Street house and lot to Beta Theta Pi
The fraternity paid $25,000 for the late George Pickard's house and large lot, a private parcel off the university courts that later let it build a bigger house with a deep lawn.
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Contractor James Henry Liner and others finish the Efland Home cottage
By May 1925, when the clubwomen marked its completion at their annual meeting in Wilson, a one-story weatherboarded cottage with a hip roof stood on the Efland farm, built for about $4,600 by contractors including James Henry Liner of Cedar Grove. It held a classroom-living room, dormitory rooms, matrons' quarters, dining room and kitchen; a Greensboro firm added a pump and Delco generator house, and Efland merchant S. C. Forrest drilled the well and held the mortgage.
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Governor McLean cuts the university's appropriation by 5 percent
Facing a projected deficit, McLean as budget director cut all state appropriations for the coming year by 5 percent in mid-May. The cut erased the $25,000 increase the legislature had voted, and for the first time in the century the university faced a smaller state appropriation than the year before.
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Wake Forest president William Louis Poteat gives the McNair lectures
Poteat lectured on 'Can a Man Be a Christian Today?' and stayed with the Chases in the president's house; Chase introduced him as a defender of the faith. Days before, Chase had sought $6,000 a year for five years from H. Smith Richardson of Vick Chemical to bring Poteat to Chapel Hill as professor of moral philosophy, an offer Poteat declined.
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The county board merges Little River Township's schools into a new Caldwell School
Little River patrons voted in March 1925 for a new school at Caldwell, the board let the building contract to B. F. Blanchard for $12,956.20, and C. S. Miller gave seven acres just beyond Caldwell for the site. In June the board consolidated every school in the township except Schley into Caldwell, which opened with 124 pupils.
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Edwin Greenlaw leaves the Graduate School deanship for Johns Hopkins
Greenlaw left after five years as dean, during which graduate enrollment had tripled to 346 students in eighteen departments. The Alumni Review said he was being driven from the state by tight budgets. James F. Royster followed him as dean.
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Trustees raise tuition 20 percent after the governor insists on a balanced budget
At their commencement-week meeting the trustees split over what they read as a legislative order to raise tuition. Governor McLean told them they could keep tuition only by cutting the operating budget, and after three hours they voted 38 to 23 for a 20 percent increase.
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A Superior Court judge rules against the county school board in the Efland School site dispute
The county board of education had gone to court against Thomas Forrest and James O. Webb over the acre-and-a-fraction Efland School site. At a hearing in Graham the judge ruled against the board, which told its lawyers to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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Beta Theta Pi sells its Fraternity Row house to Delta Sigma Pi and moves into the Pickard house
The chapter sold its old house to Delta Sigma Pi and put twenty members in the Pickard house on Columbia Street while it planned a new building.
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Chase tries a week of orientation for entering freshmen
At Chase's initiative, new students came to campus early for a full week of physical and academic testing, campus tours and preparation for the year. The book calls it an experiment that went well.
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The university paves Cameron Avenue through the campus
Ziegler Brothers laid Kentucky asphalt on a six-inch concrete base along Cameron Avenue from the west gate to the east gate and up the Raleigh road to Franklin Street, part of a 1925 paving program with the town and the state highway commission.
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University Day marks fifty years since the 1875 reopening
More than ninety representatives of American colleges joined a procession from the Alumni Building to Memorial Hall, where former commissioner of education Philander P. Claxton spoke. In his first address to the university, Governor McLean called it the head of the state's school system and asked it to help smooth religious and social divisions.
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Playmakers Theatre opens
The Carolina Playmakers dedicated their theatre in the remodeled Smith Hall, the 1850s building later used as a library and law school, on Monday, November 23, 1925, with talks by Frederick Koch and President Harry W. Chase and three new folk plays.
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Three armed men rob the Bank of Efland
Three men held up the Bank of Efland in mid-morning, locked cashier Roberts Riley in the vault and drove off with a few thousand dollars. Two men were tried for the robbery at Hillsborough in March 1926.
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Chase cancels all campus dances after reports of drinking at a Durham dance
After newspapers described liquor and broken fixtures at a German Club dance at Durham's Washington Duke Hotel following the 1925 Thanksgiving game, the club disciplined twenty-five students and alumni, and Chase called off all campus dances until Easter or later. He followed with a chapel talk urging students not to drink.
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Dewey Merritt opens a filling station at Rosemary Lane and Columbia Street
Dewey Merritt, a mechanic at Strowd Motor Company, went into business for himself at the end of 1925 with a filling station at the corner of Rosemary Lane and Columbia Street, built with a roof extension to shelter cars. He also offered battery, generator and starter service.
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After its 1920s additions the Bellevue mill runs 10,740 spindles and 592 looms
The additions of the early 1920s more than doubled the mill's spindles and looms, and by 1926 the company's capital stock stood at $500,000. In 1919 it had still declared only its original $125,000.
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Alfred Lawrence publicly opposes fundamentalist attacks on teaching evolution
The Chapel of the Cross rector took a public stand against fundamentalist efforts to bar the teaching of evolution in public schools, introducing a diocesan resolution against limits on freedom of thought, teaching and research.
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Chase keeps Albert Coates with a raise and tenure
After Coates collapsed from exhaustion in June 1926 and sent Chase a private resignation, Chase gave him a pay raise and tenure as professor of law, and Coates was teaching again that fall.
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Chase keeps the University Press from publishing Collier Cobb's book on evolution
Geologist Collier Cobb had a manuscript on evolution in hand at the University of North Carolina Press. Chase wrote him that the book was good but that putting it out under the university's imprint would read to enemies as a challenge while the antievolution fight was still on. It was never published by the press.
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Durham resident Southgate Jones builds a two-story log summer house on Windhover Place
Jones patterned the 25-by-30-foot house at 108 Windhover Place on log houses owned by his relatives. An amateur geologist, he gathered the ironstone and petrified wood for its fireplace surround on the site; a stone pumphouse was added in the mid-1930s.
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Elizabeth Janet Gray joins the UNC library staff
Elizabeth Janet Gray, later Elizabeth Gray Vining, came to Chapel Hill in 1926 as an assistant cataloger at the University library, after library school at Drexel. Friends in town knew her as Betty Gray.
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Five fraternity houses by Brodie Thompson form the Big Fraternity Court
Alumni gifts paid for the Big Fraternity Court on the first block of South Columbia Street: five Colonial Revival houses built by Brodie Thompson and set around a shared court, in the manner of the new campus quadrangles. A smaller court stands around the corner on Cameron Avenue.
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Former students place a memorial tablet to the Nash sisters and Sarah Kollock in the Presbyterian church
Students of the girls' school kept by Sally and Maria Nash and their relative Sarah Kollock put up a tablet in their memory on the wall of the Hillsborough Presbyterian sanctuary.
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Hope Summerell Chamberlain's Old Days in Chapel Hill is published
Chamberlain's life and letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, illustrated with her own drawings, was published in 1926. The University of North Carolina Press was still advertising it in the Chapel Hill Weekly in 1927 and 1930.
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Kay Kyser takes over the UNC campus band from Hal Kemp
Kay Kyser, a UNC student and cheerleader who could not read music, took over leadership of the campus dance band in 1926 when Hal Kemp graduated. The new band held its first rehearsal in Gerrard Hall.
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Mary Hyman becomes supervisor of the Orange County schools and brings in standardized testing
Mary Hyman of New Bern came to Orange County in 1926 as school supervisor. She pushed teaching by projects and units and was the first to give standardized I.Q. and achievement tests in the county schools, using the scores in promotion; after parent complaints she was not reelected when her five-year term ended in 1931.
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Merchant Adam Kluttz dies, and a deathbed remark is later linked to the phrase "southern part of heaven"
Kluttz died in 1926. The book tells of a parson at his bedside likening heaven to Chapel Hill in spring and suggests this may be where the town's nickname began.
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Nash builds his own house in Chapel Hill
Nash designed and built a Colonial Revival house in Chapel Hill as his personal residence, at the address now numbered 124 South Boundary Street. The state listed it on the National Register on October 26, 2017 as the property most closely associated with his career.
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Nash renovates South Building and adds its portico
Nash carried out the renovation of South Building and added the portico in 1926 and 1927, part of his remodelling of older campus buildings that also took in Old East, Old West and Gerrard Hall.
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Orange County builds a new jail
The county replaced its run-down jail with a $65,000 building, also used as a base for convicts on road work. Five years later the state took over most sentenced prisoners and the jail was often nearly empty.
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Pi Kappa Alpha builds a $35,000 chapter house designed by Atwood and Nash
Pi Kappa Alpha put up a new house in 1926 for about $35,000, one of the fraternity houses drawn by the university's architects Atwood and Nash.
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Robert B. House becomes the university's first executive secretary
The trustees created the post of executive secretary to carry part of the president's load, and House, class of 1916, came from the North Carolina Historical Commission to fill it. His first major task was a plan for better teacher training; he ran the office while Chase was abroad in 1927.
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Sam Berman moves his department store into the old Pope Mattress building
Mr. Pope sold out to his partner John P. Crowder, who held a liquidation sale and sold the building to Berman. Berman then moved his store across Franklin Street into the much larger space.
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T. Felix Hickerson publishes Highway Curves and Earthworks
UNC civil engineering professor Thomas Felix Hickerson, who laid out the curving roads of Rocky Ridge Farm, first published his road design text in 1926. Later issued as Route Location and Design, it was used in engineering programs at some 83 colleges.
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The Order of Gimghoul completes its castle at Piney Prospect
The Order of Gimghoul completed a gothic castle at Piney Prospect, the spot where legend placed Dromgoole's fatal duel and burial.
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The store bearing A. A. Kluttz's name closes
The Kluttz store shut, and Stetson D, a men's clothier, took its space. Its manager, B. Y. C. Buice, blamed too many like stores, cars and better roads drawing customers away, and credit buyers slow to pay.
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William R. Kenan Jr. gives $275,000 for a football stadium
Kenan announced a gift of 275,000 dollars to build Kenan Memorial Stadium in honor of his parents, William Rand and Mary Hargrave Kenan. Construction began in November 1926.
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William T. Couch joins the University of North Carolina Press as assistant director
Couch, who had moved to the Chapel Hill area in 1917, began at the press in 1926 as assistant director under Louis Round Wilson and took over as director in 1932.
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Frank Graham leads a faculty resolution urging Chase to stay
While Chase was in Oregon being offered that university's presidency, Frank Porter Graham took the floor at a specially called faculty meeting and won adoption, without a word of dissent, of a resolution praising Chase and tying his staying to the cause of freedom and tolerance. It was wired to Chase in Portland.
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Chase turns down the University of Oregon and stays at Chapel Hill
Oregon's regents had unanimously offered Chase their presidency at $10,000 a year. Back from a three-week trip west, he received a unanimous trustee resolution in Raleigh urging him to stay and said he would remain. He told Oregon that his staying had become tied in the public mind to liberal thought and teaching. In June the trustees raised his pay to $10,000.
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Black farmers Joe B. Brooks and John W. Jones organize Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church
African American farmers Joe Bethel Brooks and John William Jones founded the Jones Grove congregation north of Hillsboro. Its members were close to Lea's (now Lee's) Chapel Baptist Church at Cedar Grove, where the Brooks family lived.
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Mount Sinai Baptist Church raises money for the new church it is building
The Black congregation on Mount Sinai Road held a rally for the benefit of its new church, then under construction, asking men for $2.50 and women for $1.50.
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Chapel Hill Methodists complete a Georgian Revival church by James Gamble Rogers
Replacing their older sanctuary at 150 East Franklin Street, the Methodists finished a red brick church with white trim designed by New York architect James Gamble Rogers. Its tall steeple rises above the nearby campus and business district.
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