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1. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

2. 1960 to 1961
   Founding or opening · Coker Hills, Elliott Road and Clayton Road, Chapel Hill Henry Roland Totten develops the first sections of Coker Hills

   Coker College hired UNC botanist Henry Roland Totten, a colleague of the late W. C. Coker, to develop its Estes Drive land, and the first sections of Coker Hills went up along Elliott and Clayton roads in 1960 and 1961. The rest of the neighborhood was built out through 1972.

3. 1963
   Construction or physical change · 205 Wood Circle, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill Arthur Cogswell designs a barrel-vaulted concrete house for David Hill

   In 1963 Cogswell built a concrete house with a barrel-vaulted roof at 205 Wood Circle in Coker Hills for Duke engineering professor David Hill, an example of the period's trials of new building materials.

4. 1964
   Construction or physical change · 401 Clayton Road, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill Arthur Cogswell designs the Koch House on Clayton Road

   In 1964 Cogswell designed a one-story, flat-roofed house for botany professor Arthur Koch at 401 Clayton Road in Coker Hills: a floor plate projecting from a block base, with glass walls opening to a deck over a pond. It received a North Carolina AIA award.

5. 1966
   Construction or physical change · 411 Clayton Road, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill Arthur Cogswell designs a pyramid-roofed house for Marion Townend

   At 411 Clayton Road in Coker Hills, Cogswell designed a house in 1966 for Marion Townend under a tall pyramidal roof. A skylight at the peak lights the central living room and the rooms around it, whose light shifts as the sun moves.

6. 1969
   Construction or physical change · 308 Elliott Road, Coker Hills, Chapel Hill Cogswell/Hausler design Arthur Cogswell's second house on Elliott Road

   The firm's 1969 house for Arthur Cogswell at 308 Elliott Road is a flat-roofed steel-frame building, plain and white outside, whose glass-walled rooms wrap around a terrace with a heated pool. It won a North Carolina AIA award.

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