Milton Julian

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 5 dated events in the chronology →

1. September 1948 Milton Julian opens the Clothing Cupboard on West Franklin Street Milton Julian opened the Clothing Cupboard at the start of September 1948 in his home on East Franklin Street while a colonial-style building at 420 West Franklin was finished, and moved the store there on Monday, November 29, 1948. Mrs. Julian designed the knotty-pine cupboards that gave it its name. It later moved to East Franklin, where it stayed until the mid-1990s. People: Milton Julian Place: Milton's Clothing Cupboard, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: West Franklin, East Franklin StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 2, 1948, p. 1 · Also: Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan
2. 1950 Colonial Drugstore moves into the West Franklin store left by Milton's Clothing Cupboard Colonial Drugstore took over the West Franklin building that Milton Julian's clothing store had vacated. People: Milton Julian Place: Colonial Drug, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: West FranklinSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 291
3. 1953 to 1954 Milton Julian wins the right to build his modernist house on Ledge Lane When W. C. Coker's chosen architect, Walter D. Toy, refused to approve the plans for clothier Milton Julian's house on Ledge Lane, designed by George Matsumoto of the State College School of Design, Milton and Virginia Julian sued on September 30, 1953; Coker's executors, his widow and neighbors Cornelius and Beulah Cathey opposed them. The North Carolina Supreme Court held on June 4, 1954 that the approval clause was personal to Coker and ended at his death in June 1953, and the International Style house was finished by November 1956. People: George Matsumoto, Milton Julian Place: Ledge Lane, Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. C. Coker, Walter D. ToySearch the index · Caselaw Access Project: Julian v. Lawton, 240 N.C. 436, 82 S.E.2d 210 (N.C. Supreme Court, June 4, 1954) · Also: NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 2, 1956, p. 1
4. by November 1956 Milton Julian's Matsumoto-designed house on Ledge Lane is finished The modernist house George Matsumoto designed for clothier Milton Julian and his family, which neighbors had gone to court to stop, stood finished by November 1956, when it was one of ten homes on the School Art Guild's tour of Chapel Hill homes. People: George Matsumoto, Milton Julian Place: 101 Ledge Lane, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 2, 1956, p. 1 · Also: NC State University Libraries, George Matsumoto Papers finding aid
5. 1992 Milton's Clothing Cupboard leaves East Franklin Street for Durham Milton Julian moved his men's clothing store, founded in 1948, from 163 E. Franklin St. to Northgate Mall in Durham because of poor business. He blamed competing malls, scarce free parking and high rents for the 100 block's decline. People: Milton Julian Place: 163 East Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 20, 1993, p. 5