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Charlie Lee Martindale

Charlie Lee Martindale was a Chapel Hill contractor said to have built many of the brick stores on Franklin Street and several houses in the Franklin-Rosemary area. He was general contractor for the Gimghoul Castle and, around 1920, built his own bungalow at 1518 East Franklin Street, doing its interior woodwork himself.

Source: NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 79

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East Franklin St, 1518: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Front view of 1518 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, the home of the Charlie Lee Martindale family. One undated photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Martindale, Charlie with Melvin Cheek and Fred Sparrow Sr: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Three Chapel Hill men, Charlie Martindale, Melvin Cheek and Fred Sparrow Sr, pose together outdoors. Undated, from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Martindale, Charlie: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Charlie Martindale of Chapel Hill, posed in uniform. Undated print from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.

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  1. Contractor Charlie Lee Martindale builds his own bungalow on East Franklin Street Martindale, credited with many of the brick stores on Franklin Street and with the Gimghoul Castle, built the house at 1518 East Franklin Street on about two acres then outside town and did its interior woodwork himself. The Durham road first ran behind the house. People: Charlie Lee MartindaleSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 79
  2. Engineering professor Ralph Trimble and his wife Hazel move into their new Gimghoul house Ralph M. Trimble, the UNC engineering professor who surveyed the lots of the Gimghoul subdivision, and his wife Hazel move into one of its first houses, built by contractor Charlie Martindale on Glandon Drive. People: Charlie Lee MartindaleSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1924, p. 4
  3. Charles Martindale builds a bungalow in the Gimghoul colony for attorney L. J. Phipps Contractor Charles Martindale nears completion of a Craftsman bungalow in the Gimghoul colony for Chapel Hill attorney L. J. Phipps and his wife Vivian. Its floor-length windows and front terrace are noted in later surveys. People: Charlie Lee MartindaleSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 28, 1925, p. 3
  4. The Order of Gimghouls begins building its castle Work on the Gimghouls' castle off the end of Gimghoul Road began in 1925: some 1,300 tons of stone were hauled to the site, stonemasons came from the Waldensian settlement at Valdese, and Chapel Hill builder Charlie Lee Martindale was general contractor. The order held its first gathering there in May 1926. People: Charlie Lee MartindaleSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 72
  5. Contractor Charlie Lee Martindale opens an airfield north of Chapel Hill Martindale bought a 50-acre plot from philosophy professor Horace Williams and laid out an airfield he called Martindale Field. By 1931 it was known as the Chapel Hill airport. People: Henry Horace WilliamsSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill (University Gazette, May 22, 2018): Cleared for landing
  6. The Commerce Department puts Martindale's Chapel Hill airport on its air maps C. L. Martindale, owner and manager, reported that the Department of Commerce had placed the independently owned Chapel Hill airport, two miles north of town, on its official air maps. The field measured 2,200 by 2,500 feet, and its hangar held three small planes.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1931, p. 1

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