Chronology

The Phillips-Hill-Webb House opens as the Hillsborough House Inn

BelleVue, the Phillips-Hill-Webb House on East Tryon Street, began operating as a bed-and-breakfast called the Hillsborough House Inn.

Subject: BelleVue (Phillips-Hill-Webb House)

James J. Freeland moves Poplar Hill across the Eno to South Cameron Street

Freeland, who had moved the Gatewood House in 1978, had the Poplar Hill house hauled over the Eno River from Tuscarora Drive to a new lot at 203 South Cameron Street, just south of Burnside, on the north side of the river.

People: James J. Freeland

Subject: Occoneechee Farm

Shanklin's Press prints Irene Oliver Pender's History of Orange County Schools

Shanklin's Press of Hillsborough, the Black-owned print shop run by the family of Thomas Shanklin, published Irene Oliver Pender's A History of Orange County Schools: 1752-1983. The shop began in the family home in the 1960s and later moved to Cornelius Street.

The Alexander Dickson House is moved into Hillsborough to East King Street

The late-Georgian house that Alexander Dickson owned from about 1839 was moved from its farm site near Interstate 85 and NC 86 to a lot at East King and South Cameron streets. Restored, it became the Chamber of Commerce and visitors center.

People: Alexander Dickson

Subject: Alexander Dickson House (Johnston’s headquarters)

The Saratoga Grill opens at 108 South Churton Street

The Saratoga Grill, among the first businesses to come back downtown as interest in the town's history grew, opened in the commercial building at 108 South Churton Street.

Hillsborough's preservation groups form the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough

By the late 1980s Hillsborough had so many preservation organizations that the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough was created to coordinate them.

Houses begin going up on Winnawa Walk and Saponi Drive south of the Eno

After Poplar Hill is moved off its old site south of the Eno in 1981, the land is divided into lots along two new streets, Winnawa Walk and Saponi Drive, and houses are built there from 1985.

Shingled pent roofs and Colonial Revival storefronts are added along West King Street

Around 1985 several stores on the first block of West King Street, at 103-105, 107, 109, 115 and 117, were given asphalt-shingled pent roofs, and some got replacement Colonial Revival storefronts. The 2014 survey counts these changes against most of them.

Nancy and Craufurd Goodwin acquire Montrose

Nancy and Craufurd Goodwin have owned and lived at Montrose since 1986. A greenhouse, lath house and pineapple-topped entrance gate on St. Mary's Road date from about 1987, and the gardens behind the house are theirs.

Subject: Montrose

The Berry Gordon House is moved to 410 West Margaret Lane

The Berry Gordon House, built about 1899 at the northwest corner of South Wake Street and West Margaret Lane, is moved down the street to 410 West Margaret Lane in 1987. The nomination still counts it as contributing.

The East Orange Street house built around Edmund Strudwick's old office is raised to two stories

The house at 110 East Orange Street grew out of Dr. Edmund Strudwick's one-story office, moved there in 1889. Enlarged by 1943, it was remodeled again in 1987 with a second story, and no trace of the office remains visible.

People: Edmund Strudwick

Orange Federal Savings and Loan builds an office on the old service station lot at 137 North Churton Street

Orange Federal Savings and Loan Association acquired the former gas station property at 137 North Churton Street and put up a one-story brick office building with a cupola. The building later became county offices.

Additional documentation extends the Hillsborough Historic District's period of significance into the 1920s and

A 1989 amendment to the 1973 Hillsborough Historic District nomination records changes to the commercial buildings, extends the period of significance to take in the town's growth in the 1920s and 1930s, and counts forty more commercial buildings as contributing.

Subject: Hillsborough Historic District

The Holman-Gates House is moved from Person County to South Cameron Street

The Holman-Gates House, a Quaker-plan farmhouse built about 1785 in Person County just north of the Orange line, is moved to 207 South Cameron Street, beside the relocated Poplar Hill. It was enlarged in 1998.

The early twentieth-century building at 110 South Churton Street is torn down

The building that had stood at 110 South Churton Street since the early 1900s is demolished in 1990, and a two-story brick building replaces it in 1991.

The Hamlett House at 423 West King Street burns

Fire destroys the Hamlett House at 423 West King Street in 1993, and a new house is later built on the lot.

The Long House at 112 North Nash Street is torn down

The deteriorated Long House at 112 North Nash Street is demolished in 1993, and a new house is built on the lot in 1998.

The Hughes Academy schoolhouse is moved from near Lake Orange to Hillsborough

The small two-room frame schoolhouse of the Hughes Academy, built around 1862 near Lake Orange in northern Orange County, was moved in 1994 to the grounds at 200 East King Street in Hillsborough and restored.

Subject: Hughes Academy (Cedar Grove Academy)

A new A. L. Stanback Middle School opens south of Hillsborough

Orange County opened a new A. L. Stanback Middle School just south of town, carrying the name of the old Central High principal to a new building.

People: A. L. Stanback

An old frame store on South Hillsborough Avenue is torn down

An earlier frame store building at 219 South Hillsborough Avenue was demolished in 1995, and a one-and-a-half-story house was built on the site the next year.

Hillsborough builds a new police station on North Churton Street

The Hillsborough Police Department moves into a new two-story brick building at 127 North Churton Street in 1995; it was going up during the 1994 survey.

Hillsborough Elementary School opens in the old Central High buildings as the county's first year-round school

After standing closed for several years, the former Central High campus on North Nash Street reopened in 1996 as Hillsborough Elementary School, the first year-round school in Orange County.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

The 1920s Orange County Jail on Court Street is greatly enlarged

The Neoclassical Orange County Jail at 125-131 Court Street, built in 1926 facing the courthouse with the deputy's apartment upstairs, is enlarged in 1996 with a series of flat-roofed wings reaching back to East Margaret Lane.

Subject: Orange County jail, Hillsborough

The Watson-Whisnant House is moved from Burnsville to South Occoneechee Street

The Queen Anne house built about 1898 in Burnsville by banker and lawyer Frank Watson was moved across the state and set on a new brick foundation at 209 South Occoneechee Street, replacing a mobile home.

A house already moved once from Occoneechee Mountain is moved to 116 North Nash Street

The house at 116 North Nash Street, built about 1910 on Occoneechee Mountain and moved to Collins Avenue in the 1950s, is moved again in 2005 to its present lot in the district.

The storefront at 109 West King Street is restored and its pent roof removed

In 2005 the storefront of 109 West King Street was restored, with a recessed entrance between copper-framed plate-glass windows, and the shingled pent roof added in the 1980s was taken off.

Turnip Patch Park is made on a deep lot between West King Street and West Margaret Lane

A small park with a playground and a footbridge over a ravine was made around 2005 on the lot at 333 West King Street, which runs through to West Margaret Lane along South Occoneechee Street. A small building stood there on the 1924 and 1943 Sanborn maps.

Gold Park opens on Dimmocks Mill Road

The twenty-acre Gold Park, with walking paths, footbridges, a dog park, a soccer field and three picnic shelters, opens on Dimmocks Mill Road in 2007. It takes in the baseball field long tied to the Eno Mill.

A four-story brick parking deck is built at Nash and Kollock streets

A four-story parking deck with a brick veneer and a corner stair and elevator tower was built in 2008 at 104-106 Nash and Kollock streets, with pilasters copying those on the Gateway Center on South Churton Street.

The Gateway Center replaces the old post office building at 228 South Churton Street

The commercial building put up at 228 South Churton Street to house the post office is torn down around 2007, and the three-story Gateway Center, with shops on the ground floor and government offices above, is built on the site in 2008.

Orange County builds a three-story office building on West Margaret Lane

The three-story brick Orange County Government Offices building at 131 West Margaret Lane, fifteen bays wide, went up behind the site of the new main library; it was under construction in 2008 aerial photographs and is dated 2009.

The Cameron coachman's quarters on South Cameron Street are restored

The one-room brick coachman's quarters built about 1830 for Paul Cameron's Burnside estate, which had lost its roof and chimney, is carefully restored around 2010 at 209 South Cameron Street.

Subject: Burnside