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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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James Hogg builds a large house on Franklin Street
James Hogg acquired the eastern half of Lot #11 from William R. Davie when his son Gavin entered the university, and built a ten-room house there. Debts forced him to sell in 1806, though he kept living in it; the house later passed to merchants and became the core of the Central Hotel.
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
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Jones Watson buys Barbee's old store and house for a drugstore
Jones Watson acquired Sidney Barbee's former house and store on the south side of the street, the old James Hogg property, and probably ran his drugstore from the store before remodeling both buildings. By 1858 they had become his Central Hotel.
People: Jones Watson
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
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Jones Watson opens the Central Hotel
Watson remodeled and enlarged the old James Hogg house and the Barbee store beside it into the Central Hotel, which had several shops on the ground. It appears on the maps through 1868.
People: Jones Watson
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Dr. Abner B. Roberson buys the Central Hotel and moves his drugstore into it
After the hotel's owner, Jones Watson, died, Dr. Roberson bought the Central Hotel, moved his drugstore into it with Clyde Eubanks as druggist, and leased the hotel's management to 'Bunn' Patterson. Adam A. Kluttz opened a store called the Glass Front in the many-windowed west end of the building.
People: Jones Watson · Abner Benton Roberson · Clyde Eubanks · Adam Alexander Kluttz
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
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Dr. Roberson adds a ten-room annex to the Central Hotel
Roberson enlarged the Central Hotel with a ten-room wing facing the campus. After his death in 1897 Kluttz ran the hotel for a short time before 'Bunn' Patterson took back its management.
People: Abner Benton Roberson
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
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Clyde Eubanks buys Dr. Roberson's drugstore
When Dr. Roberson died, his druggist Clyde Eubanks bought the drugstore and kept it in the Central Hotel until 1901.
People: Abner Benton Roberson · Clyde Eubanks
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own
Eubanks left the Central Hotel and set up his drugstore in a new building he had put up on the west corner of the Tankersley property on Franklin Street.
People: Clyde Eubanks
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
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The university razes the old Central Hotel to build dormitories
The university bought the old Central Hotel from Dr. Roberson's estate, tore it down in 1912, and built the Vance, Battle and Pettigrew dormitories on the site.
People: Abner Benton Roberson
Subject: Central Hotel (Chapel Hill)
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