Chronology

John W. Canada's school closes and its building becomes a rooming house

The John W. Canada School closed, and the old building on the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets where it had met became a rooming house. The brick building beside it was used as a Masonic hall.

Josephus Daniels serves on the University of North Carolina board of trustees

Daniels became a member of the university board of trustees in 1901 and remained an active trustee until his death in 1948. During the 1920s he pressed for consolidating the state colleges at Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro into one university, and in 1930 he championed Frank P. Graham to succeed Harry Woodburn Chase as president.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

The Mary Ann Smith Dormitory is completed

The Mary Ann Smith Dormitory was finished in 1901, adding thirty-eight student rooms. Venable later gave its cost as $16,000.

The Yackety Yack replaces the fraternity-sponsored Hellenian as UNC's yearbook

The Hellenian, the yearbook put out by the fraternities, gave way in 1901 to the Yackety Yack.

The pharmacy department is made part of the university

The department of pharmacy, run by Dean Edward V. Howell, was formally incorporated into the university in 1901. Its laboratory and lecture space was then doubled.

People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell

Subject: UNC School of Pharmacy

The university completes its water works, sewerage and central heating plant

During 1900-01 the university finished its water works and sewer system, installed a forced-circulation hot-water heating plant, and built a boiler house, workshop and printing office. Two new dynamos doubled its electric lighting.

The university track team wins the Southern championship at New Orleans

Running on a cinder track given by student Henry S. Lake, a university track team competed at New Orleans against Vanderbilt, Tulane and Texas and won the Southern championship.

Archibald Henderson receives the first Ph.D. in mathematics from UNC

Archibald Henderson, who had graduated from UNC in 1898, received the university's first doctorate in mathematics at the June 1901 commencement. He stayed on the Chapel Hill faculty until 1948.

S. J. Brockwell builds a three-story brick building at Franklin and Columbia streets

Samuel Jackson Brockwell put up a three-story brick building on the northeast corner of Franklin and Columbia streets. Its first tenant, Samuel Weldon Andrews, took both ground-floor storefronts, with groceries on the Columbia Street side and dry goods on the other.

The university withdraws from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

After two years as a member, the university left the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1902. Its schools lay in Tennessee, South Carolina and farther south, out of touch with Chapel Hill.

Walter Dallam Toy builds a new house on West Franklin Street

Newly married, Professor Toy built a new house on the land he had bought from Julia Graves. In 1912 Robert B. House noted it near the corner of Church Street.

Charles E. Maddry is ordained at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church

Charles Edward Maddry was ordained to the Baptist ministry at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, now University Baptist Church.

Subject: University Baptist Church

A northeast windstorm tears two limbs from the Davie Poplar

A fierce wind from the northeast on August 6, 1902, destroyed many old trees on the campus and tore two large limbs from the Davie Poplar. The tree later put out new growth.

Subject: McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar)

Charles Baskerville announces two new elements, carolinium and berzelium

Baskerville's research at the university on thorium and other rare earths led him in 1903 to announce two previously unknown elements, which he named carolinium and berzelium.

Charles T. Woollen becomes the first director of the university band

Charles T. Woollen, a university administrator, became the first director of the university band in 1903 and led it until 1919. The band first performed at a university baseball game in 1904 and was giving concerts on the Alumni Building steps by 1906.

Edward Vernon Howell owns Chapel Hill's first automobile

Pharmacy dean Edward Vernon Howell, then living in the old Fetter house on East Franklin Street, became the first in town to own a car, a one-cylinder Oldsmobile.

George Howe is elected professor of Latin at the university

The trustees elected George Howe, who held a Ph.D., professor of Latin for 1903-04 in place of Dr. H. F. Linscott, who had died in December. Howe kept the chair until 1936.

Gooch's Café opens in Chapel Hill with seven seats

Gooch's Café began feeding university students in Chapel Hill about 1903, with seven seats by its own later account. It stayed a student gathering place for more than fifty years.

Subject: Gooch’s Café

John Sprunt Hill endows a fellowship in history

In his 1903 alumni address John Sprunt Hill gave the interest on $4,000 to set up a fellowship in the department of history. The first year's interest was to go toward a YMCA building.

Subject: University YMCA

The Martha Patterson House is built on McCauley Street

A two-story Triple-A house with a center front gable went up about 1903 at 223 McCauley Street. It takes its name from a former owner, Martha Patterson.

William C. Coker begins turning a boggy pasture into the campus arboretum

UNC's first professor of botany began developing a five-acre boggy pasture on the campus into an outdoor classroom for the study of trees, shrubs and vines native to North Carolina. From the 1920s through the 1940s he added many East Asian trees and shrubs.

Subject: Coker Arboretum

William D. Moss becomes pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill

Coming from pastorates in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, William Dygnum Moss arrived in North Carolina in 1903 to lead the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill. Apart from six years in Washington, he served the congregation until his death in 1932.

Subject: University Presbyterian Church

The university confers its first Doctor of Medicine degrees

On the evening of May 7, 1903, Dean Hubert A. Royster presented four graduates of the Medical Department, and the M.D. degree was conferred for the first time in the university's history.

People: Hubert Ashley Royster

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

A survey enlarging the graveyard is laid before the Chapel Hill aldermen

After a 1902 trustee resolution to enlarge the crowded burying ground, a survey by James O. Webb presented to the town board on December 12, 1903 added two-thirds of an acre on the west and one and one-third acres on the east. No approval is recorded, but the east addition matches Section II, where regular burials began in the early 1900s.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

A Phi Beta Kappa chapter is established at the university

As dean of the faculty, Eben Alexander, himself a Phi Beta Kappa member from Yale, helped establish a chapter of the honor society at the University of North Carolina in 1904.

Brockwell turns his building's ground floor into a skating rink

When Samuel Weldon Andrews was elected sheriff and closed his store, Brockwell remodeled the first floor of his building at Franklin and Columbia streets as a skating rink.

Eugene M. Armfield gives $5,000 for books in English philology

Eugene Morehead Armfield of the class of 1888 gave the university $5,000, with the interest to buy books for advanced study of English philology.

Joseph Hyde Pratt teaches economic geology at UNC

Pratt was professor of economic geology at the University of North Carolina from 1904 to 1925, while also serving as state geologist.

Kappa Alpha opens its chapter house near the campus

Chapters had begun leaving the dormitories in the 1890s, renting houses before they built them; Alpha Tau Omega had a chapter house by 1893. Kappa Alpha's house of 1904 began the row of fraternity houses near Franklin and Columbia streets that became Fraternity Row.

Phillips Russell graduates from the university and helps found the Golden Fleece

Russell edited the student paper the Tar Heel and was one of the founders of the honorary society Golden Fleece before graduating in 1904.

The old Joseph Caldwell obelisk is taken down, later to stand for four college servants

In July 1904 the remains of President Joseph Caldwell and his wife were moved to the base of the 1858 marble monument, and the original sandstone obelisk was taken down, to be set up again in the Black section of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. It was later raised over Wilson Caldwell's grave, and a marble tablet placed in its base by the Class of 1891 names Wilson Swain Caldwell, November Caldwell, David Barham and Henry Smith, who served the university.

People: Wilson Swain Caldwell

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

The university opens a summer course in library work

By 1904 the university had begun a summer course of instruction in library work, meant to train librarians as workers with books rather than custodians. Louis Round Wilson taught library methods in the 1905 Summer School.

People: Louis Round Wilson

Subject: University Summer School

The university organizes a Graduate Department with C. Alphonso Smith as dean

By the 1904 commencement the university had organized its Graduate Department, with Dr. C. Alphonso Smith as dean. An alumni committee on the university's condition praised the step.

Beta Theta Pi builds a house on the original Fraternity Row

The Eta chapter put up its first house at the edge of campus on Fraternity Row in 1905, which brought the chapter a run of growth until World War I.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Edward Kidder Graham organizes the Odd Number Club for student writers

Members met monthly to hear poems, sketches and prose by one another, kept ties with like clubs at Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Texas and Vanderbilt, and worked to build up campus journalism.

George Howe buys an East Franklin Street lot from the university and builds a house

In 1905 the university sold George Howe the lot at 620 East Franklin Street, and the two-story hip-roofed house on it probably went up within a year or so.

People: George Howe

Isaac Hall Manning is dean of the UNC School of Medicine

As dean for 28 years, Manning improved the school's departments, faculty, facilities and entrance requirements.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

John O'Daniel builds a Queen Anne cottage on McCauley Street

John O'Daniel's Queen Anne cottage at 237 McCauley Street has a tall hip roof, a projecting wing with a bay, and a porch that wraps around to a gazebo at the corner.

Mathematician and historian Archibald Henderson builds his house on East Franklin Street

Archibald Henderson, who taught mathematics at UNC from 1898 to 1948 and later wrote a history of the campus buildings, built a large frame house at 721 East Franklin Street in 1905. It mixes Colonial Revival porch, entrance and widow's walk with leftover Queen Anne diamond-pane windows and bays.

Merchant John Edward Clark builds a two-room schoolhouse on Old Oxford Road

Clark, a Chapel Hill storekeeper, replaced a one-room school he had also built on the site at 108 Old Oxford Road. In 1992 it was the only schoolhouse known in Chapel Hill from before school consolidation.

Roy Thayer builds a Queen Anne house on McCauley Street for William H. Haward

Builder Roy Thayer put up the two-story Queen Anne house at 219 McCauley Street for William H. Haward in 1905. Haward rented it out, and it later passed to his granddaughter, Margaret Webb Callihan.

Swain 'Kern' Pendergraft opens a fruit store and newsstand

Pendergraft opened a fruit store and newsstand where Merritt Cheek's house had stood. By 1912 he also ran a jitney service in competition with J. T. Durham.

The General Assembly votes $50,000 for a chemistry building

After Professor Charles Baskerville described the crowded chemistry laboratories, the legislature raised the university's yearly appropriation to $45,000 and gave $50,000 for a chemical laboratory. Venable called the building grant a new departure.

People: Charles Baskerville · Francis Preston Venable

The Peoples Bank is organized

The Peoples Bank was organized in Chapel Hill. By 1911 it was in a building just east of W. B. Sorrell's shop on East Franklin Street, which may or may not have been its first home.

The old Belle Hutchins house becomes a restaurant

The former home of Miss Belle Hutchins, daughter of John R. Hutchins, was turned into a restaurant with living quarters.

W. B. Sorrell keeps a jewelry and optometry shop on East Franklin Street

W. B. Sorrell sold jewelry and fitted eyeglasses from a building just west of Adam A. Kluttz's stores, likely the site of the earlier Pritchard and Lloyd store.

William de Berniere MacNider organizes UNC's first Department of Pharmacology

MacNider, a Chapel Hill native and 1903 graduate of the medical school's first class, organized the university's first Department of Pharmacology and led it as professor.

The Leonidas Polk Chapter of the UDC holds Confederate memorial exercises

On May 10, 1905, the Leonidas Polk Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy held memorial exercises in Gerrard Hall, reading the roll of students who had served in the Confederate army. Children and adults then carried flowers to decorate soldiers' graves in the village cemetery.

People: Thomas Hume

Subject: Gerrard Hall · Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton joins the UNC history faculty

Hamilton, born in Hillsborough and trained at Columbia under William A. Dunning, was appointed associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina. He served the university until he retired in 1951.

John Sprunt Hill endows the North Carolina Collection

John Sprunt Hill gave the university library money for collecting historical and literary material about North Carolina, the start of what became the North Carolina Collection.

Subject: UNC Libraries

The new chemistry building is completed and Person Hall goes to medicine

The university spent $45,000 of the state grant on a chemistry building that held three times as many students as the old one. The rest refitted Person Hall, the old chemistry building, for the Medical Department and New East for biology.

People: Charles H (Charles Holmes) Herty

Subject: Person Hall · UNC School of Medicine

A storm damages the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets in Chapel Hill

A photograph in the book's plates shows storm damage at Franklin and Columbia streets on January 26, 1906.

The trustees agree to buy the old hotel near the campus

At their June 1906 meeting the trustees agreed to buy the old Eagle Hotel, later the Chapel Hill Hotel and then the University Inn, for $19,700 to use for dormitories. The two-acre lot had sold for $200 in 1792. W. W. Pickard kept the hotel until early 1908, when the University put Addison Lambeth in charge.

Subject: Eagle Hotel (Chapel Hill)

A freshman shoots a sophomore during a hazing attack

Set upon by three sophomores as he crossed the campus, a freshman pulled a pistol and shot one of them, who was gravely wounded but survived. It was the most serious hazing case at the university before Isaac William Rand's death in 1912.

A new president's house is completed

The university finished a new residence for its president in 1907 at a cost of about $15,000, on high ground in Chapel Hill.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Education professor M. C. S. Noble takes a Queen Anne house on West Cameron Avenue

The two-story frame Queen Anne house at 214 West Cameron Avenue, with a front gable and wraparound porch, is believed to have belonged about 1907 to Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, later dean of the School of Education.

People: M. C. S. Noble

Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt builds a Colonial Revival house on East Franklin Street

Joseph Hyde Pratt, UNC professor of economic geology and later state geologist, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house set well back on a large lot on East Franklin Street. Pratt also built several other houses on that part of the street.

James Finch Royster joins the university's English department

James Finch Royster came to the university's English department in the fall of 1907 and taught there for seven years.

N. W. Walker revives the UNC summer school

Walker, professor of secondary education since 1905, revived the university's summer school in 1907 and directed it for twenty-seven years. In 1921 he became acting dean of the School of Education.

Subject: University Summer School

The Archer family builds a house on South Columbia Street that becomes a student boarding house

The Archer House went up on South Columbia Street in 1907, and Mrs. Joseph Archer ran it as a boarding house for University students. The University bought the house in the 1920s.

Subject: Archer House

The university infirmary opens

A new infirmary with room for about twenty patients and an operating room came into use in 1907. It cost about $20,000 to build and equip.

Subject: University infirmary (Abernethy Hall)

Walter W. Pickard builds a new Pickard Hotel at Franklin and Pine streets

After the old hotel he had leased passed to the university, Pickard and his wife built a new seventy-five-room Pickard Hotel on the northwest corner of Franklin and Pine streets.

Subject: Pickard Hotel

The University Dramatic Club stages a student show

On May 1, 1907, the University Dramatic Club acted a student-written show with a mock sermon and a burlesque faculty meeting. L. W. Parker was the club president.

Masons lay the cornerstone of the Carnegie library

On the Saturday of the 1907 commencement the Grand Lodge of Masons, led by Grand Master Francis D. Winston, laid the cornerstone of the new library built with Andrew Carnegie's gift. Construction had begun in October 1906.

People: M. C. S. Noble

Subject: UNC Libraries · Hill Hall

The campus YMCA building is dedicated

The new Young Men's Christian Association building was formally dedicated on the evening of June 2, 1907, after the YMCA sermon. Professor J. W. Gore presented it for the building committee and Dr. Richard H. Lewis accepted it for the trustees.

People: Richard H. Lewis

Subject: University YMCA

Kemp P. Battle and Thomas Hume retire on Carnegie pensions

At the 1907 commencement President Venable announced the resignations of Kemp P. Battle, professor of history and former president, and Thomas Hume, professor of English, both placed on the Carnegie Foundation pension list.

People: Kemp Plummer Battle · Francis Preston Venable · Thomas Hume

Subject: Memorial Hall

A house is built on Battle Lane for English professor Edward Kidder Graham and his wife Susan

English professor Edward Kidder Graham, later president of the university, and his wife Susan Williams Moses Graham build a shingled two-story house at 115 Battle Lane that mixes Colonial Revival and Craftsman details.

Andrew Henry Patterson becomes the university's professor of physics

Andrew Henry Patterson, an 1891 graduate of the university, came from the University of Georgia in 1908 to be professor of physics and held the chair for the rest of his life.

Botanist William C. Coker builds his house at The Rocks

At The Rocks, his estate north of the village (now 609 North Street), botanist William Coker built a stuccoed two-story house raised on a high stone base, with wide eaves and a fieldstone wainscot. Little finds it the nearest thing in Chapel Hill to Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses; its architect is unknown.

People: William Chambers Coker

Subject: The Rocks (William C. Coker House)

E. M. Highsmith becomes the first superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools

The book's list of Chapel Hill school superintendents begins with E. M. Highsmith, 1908 to 1910. Chapel Hill ran its schools as a separate unit under a special legislative charter.

Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

Nonfraternity juniors elect a fraternity man class president and hold an open junior prom

Frank Porter Graham helped rally the nonfraternity majority of his class to elect a fraternity member as president on merit, breaking a long custom, and the class held a junior promenade open to every man in it.

People: Frank Porter Graham

The John Calvin McNair lectures on science and religion begin

The lecture fund left by John Calvin McNair of the class of 1849 became available in 1906 from the sale of his plantation, and the first McNair lectures were given in 1908 by Francis H. Smith of the University of Virginia.

The university adds a new athletic field and tennis courts

By University Day 1908 the university had laid out a new athletic field for about $1,000 and built more tennis courts, and a new dissecting hall was in use.

The university opens Davie Hall for botany and zoology

Ordered by the trustees in June 1907 and begun late that year, the university's new building for botany and zoology, named William R. Davie Hall, was finished for the fall 1908 session. It was renovated and expanded in 1967.

Subject: Davie Hall

UNC sets up a separate botany department with Coker as its chair

By 1908 William C. Coker, who had come to the university as an associate professor in 1902, was a full professor and chair of the newly established Botany Department, housed in Davie Hall.

UNC trustees approve the United Daughters of the Confederacy's request to build a Confederate monument on the campus

The board of trustees approved a request from the North Carolina Division of the UDC for a monument on the campus. President Francis P. Venable took part in the planning and fund-raising and later committed university money when UDC and alumni contributions fell short.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

Faculty members organize the Chapel Hill Country Club

About forty-five people, mostly university faculty, organized a country club and rented a house and several acres at the edge of Chapel Hill, laying out golf links and tennis courts. Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired its board of governors.

People: Joseph Hyde Pratt · Archibald Henderson · Charles H (Charles Holmes) Herty

Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics and dean, dies

Joshua Walker Gore, professor of physics and dean of the university, died on April 9, 1908. A memorial service followed on May 10, and alumni later gave his portrait for the library.

People: M. C. S. Noble · Charles Edward Maddry

Chapel Hill holds a memorial service for Cornelia Phillips Spencer

Cornelia Phillips Spencer died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1908. On May 17 the university held a service in her memory in Gerrard Hall, opening with the hymn she wrote for the 1875 reopening.

People: Collier Cobb · Kemp Plummer Battle

Subject: Gerrard Hall

The university creates a School of Applied Science with Charles H. Herty as dean

At the 1908 commencement President Venable announced that the trustees had made Charles H. Herty dean of the School of Applied Science and James E. Latta professor of electrical engineering.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Edward Kidder Graham marries Susan Williams Moses at the Chapel of the Cross

Moses, a daughter of school reformer Edward Pearson Moses, had studied at the university from 1898 to 1901 and headed Latin and Greek at Sweet Briar College; the reception was on the porch of Eben Alexander's house next door. The couple lived at Bulrushes, a shingled house at the east edge of the campus that Graham and Louis Graves had built on a lot they bought.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

Gerrard Hall is refitted and daily chapel resumes for every undergraduate

With money Venable got from the legislature, Gerrard Hall's interior was renovated so that all undergraduates fit, and Dean Graham set a half-hour program before noon with ministers, faculty, trustees and other guest speakers. Upperclassmen had been excused from chapel for want of seats.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Gerrard Hall

Students form the University Council to run the honor system

In 1909-10 the University Council, made up of class presidents and elected student members, was set up as the head of the honor system. It looked into cheating, drunkenness and gambling and asked guilty students to leave the university.

Venable names Edward Kidder Graham dean of the College of Liberal Arts

At 32 the youngest of the senior faculty, Graham took over the English department and replaced Eben Alexander, who was given a year's leave, as dean, with first responsibility for student discipline.

People: Francis Preston Venable · Eben Alexander

Woodrow Wilson speaks in Gerrard Hall on Robert E. Lee's centennial

On January 19, 1909, the university marked the hundredth birthday of Robert E. Lee in Gerrard Hall, with Princeton president Woodrow Wilson as the speaker.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Gerrard Hall

Alumni pledge forty-one endowed scholarships

At the 1909 alumni luncheon, classes and local alumni groups promised to endow forty-one scholarships of $1,000 each. Julian S. Carr gave five named for J. Johnston Pettigrew for sons of Confederate soldiers, and Edgar Love two named for Cornelia Phillips Spencer.

People: Julian S. Carr · Francis Preston Venable

The Pickwick, a moving-picture theatre, opens on Franklin Street next to Brockwell's building

The Pickwick, a theatre for moving pictures and musical acts, opened to the public in late November 1909 in a new building on Franklin Street, the first door east of Brockwell's building. Students filled it from the first week.

Subject: Pickwick Theatre

Black-owned town lots in Chapel Hill nearly double in ten years

The African American community's real estate grew from 98 lots in 1910 to 170 in 1920. The same passage names Black-owned barber, shoe repair, restaurant, grocery and pressing businesses of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Braxton Craig and partners build a small Queen Anne house on McCauley Street

Braxton Craig, W. L. Robertson and L. Lloyd are thought to have built the two-story Queen Anne house at 224 McCauley Street around 1910, apparently as a venture to sell.

Edward Arthur Brown opens a hardware and furniture store

E. A. Brown opened a large store just east of Sid L. Herndon's hardware store, selling hardware at first and soon furniture.

John Wilson begins designing UNC's Confederate monument

After the monument committee weighed competing designs, it chose Canadian sculptor John Wilson's design for the Confederate soldier statue planned for the UNC campus. Wilson began the work in 1910, using sixteen-year-old Harold Langlois of Boston as his model.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

Marvin H. Stacy becomes professor of civil engineering

Stacy, a 1902 graduate who had stayed on to teach mathematics and taken a master's degree in 1904, went to Cornell for graduate study, then returned to teach civil engineering and was made professor in 1910.

N. J. Cartmell takes charge of track athletics

N. J. Cartmell became the university's track coach in 1910. The team won the state meet in 1911 and 1912.

Student YMCA members run eight Sunday schools around Chapel Hill

In 1910-11 the university YMCA organized Sunday schools at Calvander, Clark's Chapel, Williams' Chapel, Ephesus, Mount Carmel, Orange Church, Rankin's Chapel and Smith's Level, enrolling 321 pupils.

Subject: University YMCA

The Damascus Church School is built

A one-story frame school is built near Damascus Church southwest of Chapel Hill around 1910.

The Student Council resigns after the faculty reinstates a student it expelled

The council quit when a faculty committee put back a student it had dismissed for stealing; Dean Graham negotiated a settlement that affirmed the council's authority but let its decisions be appealed to the faculty.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The county counts 25 rural primary schools for Black children, eight of them log

The school board recorded 25 rural primary schools for Black children in 1910, all but one run by a single teacher; eight were log buildings and the rest frame. White children had high schools in Hillsboro and Chapel Hill and 42 rural primary schools.

Thomas W. Strowd builds a two-story house on McCauley Street

At 220 McCauley Street, on lots he bought from David McCauley in 1901, Thomas Strowd built about 1910 a big frame Queen Anne house, hip-roofed, with a scallop-trimmed two-story bay and a porch that wraps around it, part of the wave of such houses in west Chapel Hill after 1900.

People: David McCauley

Walter Clark helps teach the university's Summer Law School

Chief Justice Walter Clark assisted in the university's Summer Law School, which enrolled thirty-seven students.

Subject: UNC School of Law

A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill

The Christian Church congregation later called United Congregational Christian Church was organized in Chapel Hill and built its church in 1914.

A. A. Kluttz advertises his University Bookstore to students in the Tar Heel

The student paper's list of regular Chapel Hill advertisers included A. A. Kluttz, whose University Bookstore advertised shoes, hats, underwear, pictures and souvenirs. A dentist, Dr. William Lynch, advertised an office in the Kluttz Building.

Subject: The Daily Tar Heel

Albert R. Ledoux endows a research fellowship in chemistry

Albert R. Ledoux, the first director of the state Agricultural Experiment Station when it was at the university, sent $5,000 in 1911 to set up a research fellowship in chemistry.

Andrew Henry Patterson becomes dean of the School of Applied Science

From 1911 Patterson was also dean of the university's School of Applied Science, a post he held until his death in 1928.

Architecture critic Montgomery Schuyler publishes a review of the UNC campus

The New York critic compared the old Chapel Hill buildings with Harvard's, praised their open placement, dismissed the old Memorial Hall and found the new Beaux Arts buildings on McCorkle Place neither good nor bad. He counted it lucky that the university could afford only conventional architects.

Graham proposes a faculty committee on university extension

The committee formed at Graham's urging started a high school debating contest and a statewide high school track meet that drew hundreds of students to Chapel Hill by 1913. President Venable gave it little support, seeing extension as a drain on teaching at home.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Louis Round Wilson has a Craftsman house built on East Rosemary Street

Louis Round Wilson, the university librarian, had a large Craftsman-style house built at 607 East Rosemary Street in 1911, an early example of the Arts and Crafts mode in Chapel Hill.

Richard W. Hogue secures a Self-Help Home for working students

By the 1911 commencement the Rev. Richard W. Hogue had secured a Self-Help Home to house students working their way through the university. The alumni gave him a rising vote of thanks.

Robert W. Foister opens his first camera shop

Foister began selling cameras from a section of E. A. Brown's store. The shop moved several times in later years.

Students start night classes for the Black men who served the dormitories

Asked for help by the young Black workers who cut firewood and carried water in the dormitories, students began teaching them reading and arithmetic in what were called moonlight schools. Under Frank Porter Graham at the campus YMCA the classes grew to take in history, English, writing, debating, home sanitation and the Bible.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: University YMCA

The Chapel of the Cross builds a new rectory and parish house

Under its rector, the Rev. Homer Worthington Starr, the Chapel of the Cross parish added a new rectory and a parish house to its East Franklin Street property.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

The Peabody Fund gives $40,000 for an education building

At the 1911 commencement Venable announced a $40,000 gift from the Peabody Fund trustees for a School of Education building. The legislature that year gave $87,000 a year for upkeep and $50,000 a year for four years for improvements.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Peabody Hall

William J. 'Tank' Hunter runs a jitney between Chapel Hill and Durham

Hunter, who had bought W. W. Pickard's livery stable in 1910, began running a jitney from the Royal Cafe, a new store beside the post office, to Durham. By 1912 J. T. Durham and Swain Pendergraft ran competing services.

UNC plays its first varsity basketball game

UNC defeated Virginia Christian 42–21 in Bynum Gymnasium in its first varsity basketball game.

Subject: Bynum Hall (Bynum Gymnasium)

Bettie Jackson London publishes the design for the campus monument and appeals for the $7,500

Writing from Pittsboro as chairman of the UDC monument committee, Mrs. Henry A. London described the monument designed by the sculptor John Wilson, a soldier above a bronze tablet of the State calling a student from his books, and warned that the chapters had not met their pledges and the unveiling at the semicentennial commencement was in doubt.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

Subject: Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

The Tar Heel reports the monument's unveiling put off from the 1911 commencement for want of funds

The paper reported that the UDC chapters had been unable to fulfill their pledges toward the $7,500, so the monument could not be unveiled at the June 1911 commencement, the fiftieth anniversary of the war's beginning, and would certainly be unveiled in 1912. It was in fact dedicated in June 1913.

Part of Silent Sam · 15 events

Subject: The Daily Tar Heel · Silent Sam (UNC Confederate monument)

Alumni set up a General Assembly and plan an alumni monthly

On May 29, 1911, the alumni adopted a plan for a General Assembly of delegates from local associations, a Council of fifteen, and a magazine to be called the University of North Carolina Alumni Monthly. W. H. Swift went out as field manager to organize local groups.

People: Robert Bingham

Governor Woodrow Wilson gives the commencement address

Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, spoke at the alumni luncheon and gave the 1911 commencement address in Memorial Hall, and the university made him a Doctor of Laws.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Memorial Hall

The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army

The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement.

People: Edward K. Graham · Julian S. Carr · Walter Clark

Alphonso McDade sells the McDade House to his daughter and son-in-law

McDade sold J. E. Merritt and his wife Minnie, McDade's daughter, the West Franklin Street house they had been renting for years.

Alumni begin publishing the Alumni Review

The alumni launched the Alumni Review, issued monthly during the college year, with Dean Edward Kidder Graham as an associate editor; his piece in the first issue memorialized his teacher Thomas Hume.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Thomas Hume

Dr. Braxton Bynum Lloyd begins practicing medicine in the Chapel Hill community

A Chapel Hill native with an M.D. from the University of North Carolina (1909) and three years at the Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary, Lloyd began a medical practice in the community that lasted until his death in 1947.

Graham joins the student county clubs into a civic association

Dean Graham revived the clubs of students from the same county, which nearly half the student body joined after Rand's death, and federated more than a dozen of them as the North Carolina Civic Association of the University, urging members to study conditions at home.

Harriet Cole's house is moved to clear a site for a public school

Mrs. Harriet Cole's house was moved several hundred feet east along West Franklin Street to make room for a planned public school.

Students form the Greater Council and open honor code hearings to the public

Working with Dean Graham after Rand's death, students set up the Greater Council, with members from every class, to give them more voice on campus questions, and the Student Council began trying honor code charges in public with the accused facing their accusers.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Summer School students perform the colonial play Esther Wake

In the summer of 1912 the Summer School for Teachers presented Esther Wake, a play by instructor Adolf Vermont about colonial North Carolina, on the steps of Smith Hall.

Subject: University Summer School · Smith Hall (Playmakers Theatre)

The university names a new McCorkle Place residence hall for Kemp Plummer Battle

In 1912 the university named a new residence hall on McCorkle Place for Battle, its president from 1876 to 1891. It was one section of a three-part dormitory whose other sections honored J. Johnston Pettigrew and Zebulon B. Vance.

The university razes the old Central Hotel to build dormitories

The university bought the old Central Hotel from Dr. Roberson's estate, tore it down in 1912, and built the Vance, Battle and Pettigrew dormitories on the site.

People: Abner Benton Roberson

Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)

Work begins on an education building on Cameron Avenue

In 1911-12 the university began a building for the Department of Education on Cameron Avenue next to Commons Hall, paid for with the Peabody Fund gift.

Subject: Peabody Hall

Sophomores besiege a freshman cottage and fire a pistol into a room

After a class banquet a crowd of sophomores surrounded a university-owned cottage where freshmen lived, threw rocks at one room and fired a shot into it when the freshmen would not come out. Neither a faculty committee nor the Student Council could name the culprits until the inquiry into Isaac William Rand's death that fall.

Trustees split the secretary-treasurer office after Richard H. Battle's death

After Richard H. Battle, secretary and treasurer of the university, died on May 12, 1912, the trustees divided his office, required the treasurer to live in Chapel Hill, and abolished the office of bursar. Julius A. Warren became treasurer.

People: Richard H. Lewis

Freshman Isaac William Rand dies in a hazing incident on the athletic field

Taken from his Old East room near midnight by sophomores, the Smithfield freshman was made to stand on a barrel behind Bynum Gymnasium, fell onto broken glass that cut his carotid artery, and died within minutes on the gymnasium steps. Four students were arrested for manslaughter that day after a coroner's inquest, and Governor W. W. Kitchin demanded a full public investigation.

People: William W. (William Walton) Kitchin · Francis Preston Venable

Venable's faculty committee reports on the Rand death and the spring hazing

After questioning nearly fifty students, the committee gave the trustees a full account of the night Rand died and of the March attack on the freshman cottage. Sixteen more students were punished, four dismissed and twelve suspended for a year, and the trustees' executive committee in Raleigh turned down fathers' appeals.

Kappa Sigma breaks ground for a new fraternity hall on Fraternity Row

The Tar Heel reported in mid-October 1912 that ground had been broken for a new Kappa Sigma hall between the Zeta Psi and Pi Kappa Alpha houses. The building, later called the Evergreen House, is the only one of the original Fraternity Row houses still standing.

A Chapel Hill conference turns football coaching and finances over to an alumni committee

Three weeks after a 66-0 Thanksgiving loss to Virginia, students, alumni and faculty agreed that alumni would clear the Athletic Association's debts and hire professional coaches under a new alumni-run General Athletic Committee, while the faculty kept control of eligibility. Weeks later the committee gave Thomas Trenchard a three-year contract.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

A Colonial Revival house is built for businessman Junius Webb on Pittsboro Street

The two-story house at 302 Pittsboro Street, with a deep hip roof, hipped dormer and wraparound classical porch, was built for Junius Webb about 1913.

A YMCA lecture series on Black life in the South is held for students

Frank Graham and the campus YMCA organized lectures on 'Negro life in the South.' Professor Harry W. Chase told students that Black citizens were a third of the population but received a sixteenth of school spending, and that what they did not pay in property taxes they made up in fines. A second series was held five years later.

People: Frank Porter Graham · Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: University YMCA

Bank cashier C. B. Griffin builds a house on McCauley Street

C. B. Griffin, a bank cashier, built the two-story frame I-house at 214 McCauley Street in or about 1913. It has a two-story rear ell and a full-width front porch.

Barbara Bynum Henderson of Chapel Hill becomes president of the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina

Barbara Bynum Henderson, wife of UNC professor Archibald Henderson, organized the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina and was elected its president, bringing the woman suffrage campaign to Chapel Hill. She was reelected unanimously in 1915.

People: Archibald Henderson

Carl Durham begins work at Eubanks Drug Store in Chapel Hill

Carl Durham, born in 1892 in the White Cross community of Orange County, went to work at Eubanks Drugstore in Chapel Hill in the summer of 1913. He qualified as a pharmacy apprentice by 1916, studied pharmacy at UNC, served in the Navy Hospital Corps in 1918 and came back to Eubanks as a pharmacist.

Edward Kidder Graham serves as acting president while Venable is in Europe

Graham, head of the English department and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Chapel Hill, acted as president in 1913 during President Francis P. Venable's absence in Europe.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Edwin Greenlaw joins the UNC faculty

Greenlaw, a Renaissance scholar, came to the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1913 at the age of 39.

Smallpox breaks out on the campus

In the last weeks of the 1912-13 term President Venable had to deal with an outbreak of smallpox at the university, one of the worries of the year that led him to seek leave.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Strowd's Garage opens in Chapel Hill as the first garage in Orange County

A plate caption identifies Strowd's Garage in Chapel Hill, pictured about 1913, as the county's first garage.

Swain Hall is built as the university dining hall

The university built Swain Hall in 1913 and 1914 as a dining hall on the site of the first president's house and named it for David L. Swain. It served as the dining hall until 1940 and later became the first home of the communications department.

Subject: Swain Hall

The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood

In 1913 the builders of the house at 224 McCauley Street sold it to E. G. Norwood.

The Chapel Hill Community Club runs an improvement contest in a Black neighborhood

Susan Moses Graham and the Community Club, with YMCA students under Frank Porter Graham, organized a project in an African American neighborhood at the edge of town, giving prizes for the cleanest house, the cleanest yard and the best fence.

People: Frank Porter Graham

Subject: University YMCA

The School of Education is established with M. C. S. Noble as dean

The university formally established its School of Education as a professional school in 1913, with M. C. S. Noble as dean. He held the post until 1921 and kept teaching until he retired in 1934.

The first president's house is moved off the Swain Hall site and becomes a private home

When Swain Hall was built in 1913 at Cameron Avenue and South Columbia Street, the 1795 house built for the university's president was moved from the corner and reused as a private dwelling.

Subject: Swain Hall

The new School of Education building is dedicated

Before the 1913 commencement Venable presided at the dedication of the building for the university's new School of Education, later called the Peabody Building.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Subject: Peabody Hall

The university calls off its football game with A&M over eligibility

Disputes over A&M players who had played for Brown, Holy Cross and Georgetown and over paid assistant coaches on the field led Carolina to cancel the game, a step Graham accepted with reluctance.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The university organizes a Bureau of Extension under Louis Round Wilson

Set up as Venable left for Europe in mid-1913 and run by university librarian Louis Round Wilson with no budget of its own, the bureau started programs to take the university's work into the state; the trustees endorsed it in January 1914.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Vice President Thomas R. Marshall gives the commencement address

Newly inaugurated with Woodrow Wilson, Marshall was the 1913 commencement speaker and stayed at the President's House because there was no decent hotel within fifteen miles of the campus.

Acting president Graham pledges to carry the university to the whole state

In his University Day remarks in Memorial Hall, Graham said the new Bureau of Extension would put the university in close touch with every problem of North Carolina life, a break with Venable's narrower view, and he answered charges that students cared mostly for football. Raleigh and Greensboro papers praised the idea the next day.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Eugene C. Branson shows students how to survey their home counties

During a five-day stay as Graham's guest at Bulrushes, the Georgia rural sociologist led classes and seminars and coached the Johnston County club on gathering facts about illiteracy, tenancy, crops and the tax burden, a report meant to serve as the model for the other county clubs.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Graham proposes a statewide civic service week in a Charlotte speech

Closing Farm Life Week in Charlotte, the acting president called for a day of community self-study across North Carolina a year later, and Farmers Union president Henry Q. Alexander drafted a resolution asking the governor to back it. The book treats the speech as the moment the university openly took up the cause of farmers and wage earners.

Andrew Henry Patterson builds a house on East Franklin Street

Patterson was one of several faculty members and townspeople who built new homes in the East Franklin Street residential district in these years.

Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own on Franklin Street

Clyde Eubanks put up a new building on his own lot, about a hundred yards west of the Tankersley-owned store he had rented, and moved Eubanks Drug Store into it. Robert Foister's camera shop took the old space.

People: Clyde Eubanks

Cora Zeta Corpening enrolls as the university's first woman candidate for a medical degree

When the 1914-15 session opened, Cora Zeta Corpening of Mars Hill became the first woman to enroll at the university as a candidate for a medical degree.

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Edward Kidder Graham is elected president of the university

The board of trustees elected Graham president by unanimous vote in 1914, succeeding Francis P. Venable. He had been at Chapel Hill since 1899, first as librarian and then through the English department to the deanship.

People: Francis Preston Venable

Fire damages the Alumni Building

A fire probably started by Joshua Gore's X-ray machine in the basement did about $1,800 in damage to the Alumni Building.

Subject: Alumni Building

Historian J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton commissions a house on North Street from N. C. Curtis

In 1914 J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, head of the UNC history department and later founder of the Southern Historical Collection, had N. C. Curtis design a one-story house with a pyramid roof at 517 North Street. Two rooms were added in 1924.

People: Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis

Isaac Emerson gives $25,000 for a new athletic field and stadium

Isaac Emerson of Baltimore, an 1879 graduate who made his fortune with Bromo-Seltzer, gave $25,000 for an athletic field and stadium. The field was under construction when students returned in September 1914 and was named Emerson Field for him.

Subject: Emerson Field

James Finch Royster leaves the university for the University of Texas

Royster, who had been teaching the journalism course Edward Kidder Graham created, left Chapel Hill for the University of Texas, one of the faculty Graham could not keep during his year as acting president.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Marvin H. Stacy becomes permanent dean of the College of Liberal Arts

Graham had made Marvin Hendrix Stacy acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts during Venable's absence and made the post permanent at his first faculty meeting as president. Stacy, a civil engineering professor, handled student discipline and worked to replace written rules with reliance on student honor.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

S. Berman opens a department store at Franklin and Columbia streets

Newly arrived in Chapel Hill, S. Berman started a department store on the southeast corner of Franklin and Columbia, where J. T. Durham had kept a general store. Berman's stayed on East Franklin for decades.

Six students and the track trainer are arrested in a Chapel Hill craps game

The authorities found the floating game when a loser wrote a bad check; a few townspeople were arrested too, the faculty suspended the students, and the trainer resigned.

State Forester John S. Holmes builds a shingled house on Glenburnie Street

John Holmes's wood-shingled house at 204 Glenburnie Street, with bargeboards and diamond-pane sash, is the only example in Chapel Hill of the Shingle Style that McKim, Mead and White developed for Newport summer cottages.

Students improve Franklin Street and Battle Park during Community Service Week

During Graham's first statewide Community Service Week, about a hundred students worked on Chapel Hill: one crew graded Franklin Street under Joseph Hyde Pratt with teams paid for by merchants and bankers, others cleared the grounds around Swain Hall, cleaned the Battle Park trails under the Rev. W. D. Moss and gathered trash from the alleys.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Joseph Hyde Pratt · William Dygnum Moss

Subject: Battle Park

The Bank of Chapel Hill moves into a new building on Franklin Street

Short of room, the Bank of Chapel Hill moved into a new building just west of Clyde Eubanks's new drugstore, and a barbershop took over the space it left.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

The Bureau of Extension begins correspondence courses for credit

Under Louis R. Wilson, the university's new Bureau of Extension began organizing correspondence courses for credit during the 1914-15 term. It had already widened its free advice for teachers to help town officials with water systems and streets.

People: Louis Round Wilson

Trustees approve asking the Rockefeller Foundation for a student building

After a sharp debate the board agreed to seek $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, to be matched by $25,000 raised at home, for a student center to replace the crowded YMCA quarters. The plan fell through when word reached the foundation that some trustees objected to tainted money.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Trustees create a chair of applied economics and rural sociology for Eugene C. Branson

Graham won approval to hire Branson at the top faculty salary of $2,500 and promised him a large office in the Peabody Building; Branson said he would come that fall and proposed starting a study of Orange County right away.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Trustees put athletic rules in the faculty's hands

At their winter meeting the trustees adopted Graham's view that the faculty alone should make and enforce athletic rules, turning aside coach Trenchard's lobbying for the board to overrule faculty eligibility decisions.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

The first Good Roads Institute meets at Chapel Hill

State geologist and faculty member Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired the first Good Roads Institute held at Chapel Hill. The institute later became part of the university's extension program.

People: Joseph Hyde Pratt

Francis P. Venable resigns the presidency from London

Writing to the trustees from London, Venable resigned on his doctor's warning against another breakdown and asked to return to teaching chemistry. His letter reached board secretary Richard H. Lewis about the same time Graham got a personal note, which Graham called a great shock.

People: Richard H. Lewis

Edwin Greenlaw heads UNC's English department

Appointed chairman of the English department in June 1914, Greenlaw built it from eight faculty members to 37 by 1925, when he left for Johns Hopkins.

E. C. Branson takes up rural economics and sociology and starts the North Carolina Club

Eugene Cunningham Branson arrived in Chapel Hill in September 1914 as Graham's new professor of rural economics and sociology. He at once gathered the students' county clubs into the North Carolina Club to study conditions back home.

The university assigns each freshman a faculty adviser

President Graham began a system of faculty advisers to help new students settle into university life, and fall 1914 was its first year. Albert Coates's adviser was Oliver Towles of romance languages.

People: Edward Kidder Graham

Branson's University News Letter publishes its first issue

E. C. Branson's University News Letter, a weekly one-page sheet packed with facts about North Carolina gathered by him and his students, first appeared in mid-November 1914 with a run of four thousand copies. Its items were widely reprinted by the state's papers, and circulation grew to fifteen thousand.

People: John Sprunt Hill

Graham reports enrollment passing 1,000 students

Graham told the trustees in December 1914 that enrollment would pass 1,000, against 512 in 1900, and that counting summer students the university taught 1,578. The campus had grown from ten buildings in 1900 to two dozen.

Collier Cobb develops Cobb Terrace, Chapel Hill's earliest planned development

On gullied land he had bought, geology professor Collier Cobb brought in earth, laid out terraced lots and built eleven houses, several of them Aladdin mail-order kit houses, as rental housing for young professors. The development of just over 20 lots was complete by 1927.

Edwin Greenlaw becomes managing editor of Studies in Philology

Greenlaw took over the university's journal Studies in Philology in 1915 and reorganized it as a quarterly.

Engineering professor T. Felix Hickerson builds a house on Battle Lane

T. Felix Hickerson, later author of a standard road-design textbook and the engineer who laid out Gimghoul and Laurel Hill, built a two-story weatherboarded house at 108 Battle Lane that pairs a classical entrance porch with a bay window and a sleeping porch.

People: Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson

George Trice, who ran an oyster restaurant and shoe shop on Franklin Street, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

George Trice (1838-1915), an African American businessman who kept an oyster restaurant and a shoe repair shop on Franklin Street, was buried in the cemetery's Black section.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Graham launches an Alumni Loyalty Fund

After the class of 1905 gave $1,000, Graham asked the trustees to back an alumni loyalty fund and turned the gift into a nationwide appeal for small yearly gifts from the university's roughly six thousand living alumni. It was a new idea to seek private money for a state institution, and the hoped-for sums never came.

Margaret Berry becomes the first woman to graduate from UNC's law school

Margaret Berry of the Hillsborough Berry family, who had finished her UNC undergraduate degree in 1913, graduated from the university's law school in 1915, the first woman to do so. That summer she passed the state bar examination, listed as Margaret Kollock Berry of Orange.

Subject: UNC School of Law

Some 250 high school debaters come to Chapel Hill for state finals

About 250 high school students came to the campus for the final rounds of the university's statewide debating union, one of Graham's means of tying the university to towns across the state. Topics included woman suffrage and public ownership of railroads.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · Albert Coates

St. Paul's A.M.E. Church widens its sanctuary by one bay

A growing congregation led to the widening of the 1892 frame church. Brick veneer went on in the 1950s, but the belfry and steeple kept their original look.

Subject: St. Paul AME Church

Student engineers wire the first campus telephone network

The electrical engineering laboratory rebuilt used telephones salvaged from a Durham textile mill to link the Alumni Building offices of the president, business manager, treasurer and registrar. Student engineers also put a radio antenna on New East to receive baseball scores.

Subject: Alumni Building

The 1880 brick building on the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia is torn down

Judged unsafe, the brick building put up in 1880 at the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets was razed. The Baptists later built their church on this corner.

The 1915 General Assembly raises the university's appropriation

Graham's first legislative campaign won $115,000 a year for operations, against $95,000 before and the $125,000 he sought, plus $60,000 over two years for permanent improvements. Much of the building money went to pay for the University Inn property on Franklin Street and the land under Peabody Hall.

People: Edward Kidder Graham · R. D. W. Connor

The Order of Gimghouls buys a 95-acre tract east of campus

The land took in the Prospect Point overlook prized by 1880s member Edward Wray Martin, who had dreamed of a stone castle there. The order traded about a third of it to the university, sold 35 acres, kept a wooded site for the castle and developed the rest as the Glandon subdivision, now the Gimghoul neighborhood.

Subject: Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood

The University Gymnasium Association votes to give Old Commons Hall to the university

Stockholders of the association that had owned the old ballroom, gymnasium and dining hall since 1885 voted at a meeting in Dr. R. H. Lewis's office to deed the building to the university. It was then used for class basketball games and, in 1917, for military drill.

People: Kemp Plummer Battle · Francis Preston Venable

The old Episcopal rectory is said to be cut into sections and moved to North Street

Local tradition holds that around 1915 the Episcopal rectory, a two-room house of about 1850 later enlarged into an H shape, was sawn into pieces and moved to North Street, where the parts became the small houses at 408, 410 and 412.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross