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National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993), section 7.Open the sourceAll sources
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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll and Eleanor Carroll build a house on Ridge Lane in Gimghoul
Dudley DeWitt Carroll, dean of UNC's commerce school, and his wife Eleanor Elliott Carroll had a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a two-story Colonial Revival house with a garage on Ridge Lane, among the first houses in the new Gimghoul subdivision.
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Daniel L. Grant, UNC's first alumni secretary, builds a house on Glandon Drive
Daniel L. Grant, the first secretary of the UNC Alumni Association, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house in the new Gimghoul subdivision, one of the five houses finished there in 1924.
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University architect Thomas C. Atwood builds a duplex on Ridge Lane for his firm's workers
Thomas C. Atwood, supervising architect for the 1920s campus building program, built a one-story frame duplex in the Gimghoul subdivision to house employees of Atwood and Nash. It stayed a duplex until the 1970s, when it became a single-family house.
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W. E. Atkins of the Atwood and Nash firm builds a Craftsman cottage on Gimghoul Road
W. E. Atkins, who worked for the university architects Atwood and Nash, has a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a one-and-a-half-story Craftsman cottage, said to be the first house on Gimghoul Road. He soon sold it to economics professor Earl Peacock.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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The Trimble house, one of the first in the Gimghoul subdivision, is torn down
The 1924 house built for Ralph and Hazel Trimble on Glandon Drive, one of the first in the Gimghoul subdivision, is demolished, leaving a vacant lot.
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