Cornelia Spencer Love

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1917–1948 Cornelia Spencer Love works as a librarian at the University of North Carolina Love came to Chapel Hill and worked in the university library from 1917 to 1948. She later wrote When Chapel Hill Was a Village, published in 1976.In the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · UNC Libraries: Cornelia Spencer Love Papers, 1898-1978 finding aid
2. 1929 Cornelia Spencer Love designs and builds her own house in Laurel Hill Cornelia Spencer Love, granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, planned her own one-story frame house in Laurel Hill; the architect Arthur Nash contributed the flared roof ends and a little porch. People: Arthur Cleveland NashSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 65
3. 1958–1970 Cornelia Spencer Love serves as a founding trustee of the Chapel Hill Public Library Love was a trustee of the public library from its start in 1958 until 1970 and secretary of its board of directors. The library began in a small house in downtown Chapel Hill.Search the index · Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation: History
4. 1960s Cornelia Spencer Love gives private funds toward a new library on East Franklin Street Love donated private money during the 1960s to help build the town's new public library on East Franklin Street.Search the index · Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation: History
5. August 17, 1960 Cornelia S. Love is named as the donor of the pool at Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center Leaders of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Corporation announced that Cornelia S. Love was the until-then anonymous donor of the $37,000 swimming pool being built on the grounds of the town-owned Negro Community Center on North Roberson Street. She made the gift in stock. People: Cornelia Spencer Love, Lucille CaldwellThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1960, p. 1
6. June 15, 1961 A.D. Clark Pool opens Chapel Hill's swimming pool for Black residents, at the Roberson Street community center and now the A.D. Clark Pool, was dedicated on June 15, 1961. Cornelia Spencer Love gave $40,000 to build it, Black residents supplied labor and raised money for the bath house, and Adolphus D. Clark led the pool association. People: Cornelia Spencer LoveChapel Hill Weekly (June 19, 1961): pool dedication report
7. 1982 The Love Trust is established for the Chapel Hill Public Library A $350,000 estate gift from Cornelia Spencer Love created the Love Trust in 1982. The library foundation has managed it since 1999 and it has given the library more than $2.3 million.Search the index · Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation: History
8. about 1990 Cornelia Spencer Love's Laurel Hill cottage is remodeled and enlarged with a modern two-story wing The work replaced the shingles with wood siding and added a large glassy wing with a metal balcony. So little original fabric survives that the 2008 documentation reclassified the house as noncontributing. People: Cornelia Spencer LoveSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 16