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- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Robert L. Strowd marries and likely builds a two-story L-plan house on land from his father
Strowd, a farmer who also kept a store on Franklin Street, received the tract from his father in 1886 and married Frances (Fannie) Headen that year; the house at 51 Davie Circle probably went up then. It stood alone at the edge of town until the area filled in during the 1910s and 1920s.
People: Robert L. Strowd
Subject: Strowd House (51 Davie Circle)
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Robert L. Strowd runs a general store on Franklin Street
Robert L. Strowd had a general store in the building where Charles L. Lindsay had sold furniture, dry goods and groceries. In 1901 he bought the building and its lot from Adele Tankersley.
People: Robert L. Strowd
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Chapel Hill Methodists enlarge their Franklin Street grounds through purchases and a swap with the university
Talks begun in September 1921 led to the purchase of the Seaton Barbee property from the university and of the A. S. Barbee store, and to an exchange of the Barbee land for vacant fraternity lots the university owned behind the church. The transactions cost $18,000 and more than doubled the church grounds.
People: Louis Round Wilson · Robert L. Strowd
Subject: University United Methodist Church
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Robert L. Strowd's two-story brick Strowd Building goes up on East Franklin Street
The Strowd Building was new and already taking tenants in January 1923, when a law fraternity moved in; by March a print shop was planned for its basement. The University Cafeteria had announced in June 1922 that it would open that fall in a larger new building.
People: Robert L. Strowd
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