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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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John Sprunt Hill offers the Graves lot and $10,000 for an alumni hotel
Hill offered the Graves property across from the west entrance plus $10,000 if 1,000 to 1,500 alumni would each give $100 toward a hotel whose profits would go to the University. The investors did not come, so he built the Carolina Inn himself.
People: Harry Woodburn Chase
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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John Sprunt Hill lets the building contract for the Carolina Inn
John Sprunt Hill, for the incorporators of the Carolina Club, let the contract for the Carolina Inn to H. L. Smith of Durham. The old Graves house on the site, at the west gate of the campus, was to be moved south of the inn and joined to it for use as a student boarding house.
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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The Carolina Inn is built
John Sprunt Hill built the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill.
People: John Sprunt Hill
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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Officials at the Carolina Inn back Coates's plan for schools of public officers
Forty-five judges, lawyers and lawmen invited by Judge W. A. Devin heard Coates propose an association of government officers served by a staff that would write guidebooks and train officials. They told him to go ahead, and Coates later called this the first meeting of the Institute of Government.
Subject: The Carolina Inn · Institute of Government
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The Hill family gives the Carolina Inn to the university
John Sprunt Hill and his family gave the Carolina Inn, which he had built in 1924, to the university on the condition that its income support the North Carolina Collection.
Subject: The Carolina Inn · UNC Libraries
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The Carolina Inn completes the first of its rear additions
The Carolina Inn, which Arthur Nash designed for John Sprunt Hill, gained a rear addition in 1940, the first of three (later ones in 1970 and 1995) that tracked the university's growth.
People: John Sprunt Hill · Arthur Cleveland Nash
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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Chapel Hill organizes civilian defense after Pearl Harbor
Within days of Pearl Harbor, Mayor John Foushee called for hundreds of civilian-defense volunteers, and armed sentries guarded the airport, the University Lake dam and the power plant. A control center opened at the Carolina Inn, with a branch volunteer office for Black residents at Perry's barber shop, and UNC students formed a volunteer training corps.
Part of The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945 · 10 events
Subject: The Carolina Inn
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Two wings designed by Archie Royal Davis are added to the Carolina Inn
The third major addition to the Carolina Inn, designed by Archie Royal Davis in 1969, was largely finished by commencement in May 1970. Two wings on the Pittsboro Street side held a new cafeteria, ballroom and larger kitchen and forty-five more guest rooms, and the main entrance moved from Cameron Avenue to Pittsboro Street.
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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Brick mason William "Smitty" Smith does his first stone repair, at the Carolina Inn
Trained on brick, William E. Smith did his first rock work in 1971 or 1972 on the Pittsboro Street side of the Carolina Inn after watching an older mason on Cameron Avenue for an hour. He went on to run his own masonry business for more than fifty years.
Subject: The Carolina Inn
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Jeff MacNelly is inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame
UNC's School of Journalism inducted Jeff MacNelly, then a two-time Pulitzer winner, and five other journalists into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame at a banquet at the Carolina Inn.
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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Carvings of Prince's circus parade move to the Alumni Center
Carvings made from the circus parade illustrations in The Southern Part of Heaven, long displayed at the Carolina Inn, were moved in 1992 to the George Watts Hill Alumni Center.
People: Carl Boettcher
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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The Carolina Inn joins the Study List
The committee approved the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill for the Study List on July 9, 1998, among twenty public requests from the central and southeastern regions. The same meeting recommended the West Chapel Hill Historic District for nomination, and the inn's own nomination followed on April 8, 1999.
Subject: The Carolina Inn · West Chapel Hill Historic District
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The Carolina Inn is listed in the National Register
On August 6, 1999 the National Park Service listed the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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The Board of Governors elects James Moeser chancellor at the Carolina Inn
At a Board of Governors meeting in the Carolina Inn ballroom, UNC system president Molly Broad introduced University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor James Moeser, and the board unanimously elected him the ninth chancellor at Chapel Hill, ending an eight-month search.
People: James Moeser
Subject: The Carolina Inn
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