John Wesley Campbell

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1945 Black mason John Wesley Campbell and his sons build the stone Neville House in Carrboro John Wesley Campbell and his sons, with Jeter Neville and mason Earnest Farrar, built the Nevilles' one-and-a-half-story bungalow of granite fieldstone trimmed in red brick, with an arcaded porch and a star and crescent moon set in stone beside the front windows. Campbell's son Handy said the stones came by army truck from Chatham County; the house is the least altered of Campbell's five 1940s stone buildings in Northside. People: John Wesley CampbellNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 11
2. 1945 John Wesley Campbell builds a fieldstone house for a pastor on North Graham Street John Wesley Campbell designed and built a large fieldstone house at 214 North Graham Street in Northside for a local pastor, finished in 1945 and one of the first houses on the street. It is the largest of his four stone houses in the neighborhood, with a broad arched corner porch and a stone end chimney. People: John Wesley CampbellNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 23
3. 1946-1947 The Campbells build a stone bungalow for carpenter Vance Thompson on Broad Street Next door to the Neville House, John Wesley Campbell and his sons designed and built a fieldstone Craftsman bungalow at 201 Broad Street for carpenter Vance Thompson and his family just after World War II. Land records show it finished by 1947; a Thompson son recalls moving in in 1946, and the family kept it until 2013. People: John Wesley CampbellNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 22
4. 1948 George Campbell and his father build a stone house on North Graham Street On a lot owned by George Campbell, he and his father John Wesley Campbell, helped by the other Campbell sons, designed and built a small one-story fieldstone house at 203 North Graham Street, finished in 1948. It is the only one of the family's Northside stone houses whose stonework runs up into the gable. People: John Wesley CampbellNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 23
5. 1959 Chapel Hill's city directory lists sixteen bricklayers, twelve in Black neighborhoods The 1959 Hill's Chapel Hill directory named sixteen bricklayers, twelve of them living in Northside and other historically Black neighborhoods. By 1962 the list had grown to eighteen, including John, Handy and Leo Campbell. People: John Wesley CampbellSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 21
6. 1968 Stonemason John Wesley Campbell, builder of Northside stone houses, dies John Wesley Campbell, born about 1888 to a white father and a Black mother and trained in masonry from age seven, died in 1968. He worked on UNC buildings, Memorial Hospital and Franklin Street stores, built stone houses and the Hargraves Center in Northside, and taught the trade to his five sons and other Black masons. People: John Wesley CampbellNC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 17