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Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289).Open the sourceAll sources
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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The trustees' building committee names Durham engineer Thomas C. Atwood its executive agent
Atwood ran the campus expansion on the ground, hiring engineers, draftsmen, an inspector, the architect H. P. Alan Montgomery and the Charlotte contractor T. C. Thompson. Nash replaced Montgomery the next year.
People: Thomas C. Atwood
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Thomas C. Atwood and Arthur C. Nash form the firm Atwood and Nash, Architects and Engineers
The firm served as the university's local architects and engineers through the 1920s building campaign, working under McKim, Mead and White's William Kendall. It kept its office in the Alumni Building and another in Durham.
People: Thomas C. Atwood
Subject: Alumni Building
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Arthur C. Nash renovates Old West
Nash's rebuilding of the 1822 dormitory, done alongside the work on Old East, left the brick walls as about the only original material.
Subject: Old West
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Arthur C. Nash renovates New East and New West
The two 1858-61 buildings were reworked under Nash, part of a series of renovations that left only the brick shells of the early campus buildings.
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Thomas Atwood's new firm, Atwood and Weeks, moves from Chapel Hill to Durham
With campus building stopped by the 1929 crash and Nash retiring, Atwood took H. Raymond Weeks as his partner and moved the practice to Durham. Weeks succeeded Nash as university architect, with Nash advising him until 1953.
People: Thomas C. Atwood · Howard Raymond Weeks
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The Alumni Building's interior is renovated
The building had held the Atwood and Nash office during the 1920s campus campaign. A second renovation followed in 1973, and the two left little of that interior.
Subject: Alumni Building
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Robert H. Wettach serves as dean of the UNC School of Law
Wettach, who also served as an assistant state attorney general, lived with his wife Alpha in the rented Nash house on South Boundary Street.
Subject: UNC School of Law
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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The Nash house's open sleeping porch is enclosed and a flat-roofed carport is added
The same round of changes enclosed the rear porch, covered the original fanlight over the back door and added French doors. The nomination judges these changes minor and reversible.
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Alpha B. Wettach joins the university as dean of women students
Wettach also founded the Chapel Hill Experimental Kindergarten, the town's first kindergarten, and ran it in Mary Nash's old painting studio in the Nash house, where she and her husband rented.
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Roland and Clara McClamroch deed the Nash house to their daughter Anna McClamroch McFall
English professor Roland McClamroch and his wife had bought the house from the Nashes and rented it to Robert and Alpha Wettach, who moved out around 1960. The house stayed in the McClamroch family until 1983.
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The Mary Manning house on East Franklin Street, where Arthur Nash boarded, is torn down
Nash lodged with Mary Manning from his arrival in 1922 until his own house was finished in 1926. The house stood at what is now 507 East Franklin Street, first numbered 402.
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Arthur Cleveland Nash, UNC's architect of the 1920s, dies in Baltimore
He died at the home of his daughter Katharine and her husband, Edward Caldwell, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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The Nash house is renovated, with picture windows in Mary Nash's old studio and a third-floor bathroom
Three large picture windows went into the north wall of the former studio, the rear French doors were replaced, and a bathroom was added on the third floor.
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Law professors Joseph and Monica Kalo buy the Nash house from the McClamroch estate
The sale ended the McClamroch family's long ownership, which began when the Nashes sold them the house. The Kalos renovated it soon after.
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The Nash house is rehabilitated to its 1926 appearance from Arthur Nash's own blueprints
The work reopened the front porch, restored a window, rebuilt the studio mantel, added a balustrade over the carport copied from the old sleeping-porch rail and uncovered part of the rear fanlight. The kitchen and two upstairs baths were modernized.
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