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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. 1914 to 1916
   Construction or physical change · Chapel of the Cross, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill The Chapel of the Cross builds a new rectory and parish house

   Under its rector, the Rev. Homer Worthington Starr, whose plan for new buildings dates from 1911, the Chapel of the Cross built a new rectory in 1914 and 1915 and then the Battle Memorial Parish House, named for Kemp P. Battle and his wife, in 1915 and 1916, without debt.

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