Chronology

Contractor Brodie Thompson builds his own house on Henderson Street

Brodie Thompson, the town's leading builder of the 1920s and 1930s and contractor for many fraternity houses and village homes, built a Colonial Revival house for himself at 214 Henderson Street.

People: Brodie Thompson

Brodie Thompson oversees the building of the Ben Warren house on Hillsborough Street

Julius A. "Ben" Warren, the university's treasurer, and his wife Pattie Spurgeon Warren built a large two-story frame house at 301 Hillsborough Street on four acres he had bought in 1917, under the supervision of local builder Brodie Thompson.

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.

People: W. S. Roberson · Brodie Thompson

Subject: Pickwick Theatre

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.

People: Brodie Thompson

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.

People: Brodie Thompson

S. J. Brockwell hires Brodie Thompson to build a Dutch Colonial house on Henderson Street

S. J. Brockwell and his wife let Thompson the contract for a two-story Dutch Colonial house on the west side of Henderson Street next to the W. P. Jordan home. The house at 211 Henderson Street was much enlarged in 1968.

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.

People: Brodie Thompson

Brodie Thompson builds a brick Colonial Revival house for banker Milton Hogan

At 104 North Boundary Street, Thompson built a two-story brick house for Milton and Carrie Hogan with a Doric-columned entrance, modillion cornice and one-story side porches.

People: Brodie Thompson

Contractor Brodie Thompson is elected to the Chapel Hill board of aldermen

In a light vote Zeb P. Council was elected mayor, and P. L. Burch with 127 votes, R. D. W. Connor with 121 and contractor Brodie Thompson with 117 were chosen councilmen. A petition had put Thompson forward as the only declared candidate for alderman.

People: R. D. W. Connor

Brodie Thompson rebuilds Howard Odum's burned house in record time

After fire gutted the Odum house on February 20, 1938, the insurance was settled in five days and Thompson began clearing the ruins the next day. Within 26 days the new house on the old foundations had walls, roof and most of its weatherboarding, which the Weekly called the fastest building job Chapel Hill had seen.

People: Howard W. Odum