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Alphonso J. McDade
Alphonso J. McDade put up the brick building at the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets in Chapel Hill in 1880 and was the town's mayor in 1884. In 1894 he and his wife Anne bought the West Franklin Street house later called the McDade House, which they rented to their daughter Minnie and her husband, J. E. Merritt.
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- Alphonso J. McDade builds the first brick building in the business district McDade put up the first brick building in Chapel Hill's business district, on the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets. F. P. Booth rented it for a dry goods store in 1883, and Junius D. Webb later kept a grocery there. People: Alphonso J. McDadeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143
- Alphonso J. McDade serves as mayor of Chapel Hill A. J. McDade was mayor of Chapel Hill in 1884, an office the town charter had created in 1879. John H. Watson held it the year before and the two years after. People: John H. WatsonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 364
- Alphonso J. McDade returns as mayor of Chapel Hill McDade served a second stretch as mayor from 1888 through 1890, following W. N. Pritchard. John H. Watson succeeded him in 1891. People: John H. WatsonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 365
- Alphonso and Anne McDade buy the house later called the McDade House The heirs of Isaac Hudson sold the western half of the original Lot 5 on West Franklin Street to Alphonso J. McDade and his wife Anne. The McDades never lived there and rented the house to their daughter Minnie and her husband, J. E. Merritt. People: Alphonso J. McDadeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 169
- The old Nunn tavern building reopens as the Patterson Hotel Dr. Abner Benton Roberson bought from McDade the old building on the eastern half of Lot 5, once Nunn's tavern and inn and for some years the McDades' home. 'Bunn' Patterson remodeled it and added four or five rooms, and it opened as the Patterson Hotel, which did not last long as a hotel. People: Abner Benton Roberson, Alphonso J. McDadeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 169
- Alphonso McDade sells the McDade House to his daughter and son-in-law McDade sold J. E. Merritt and his wife Minnie, McDade's daughter, the West Franklin Street house they had been renting for years. People: Alphonso J. McDadeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 197
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- John H. Watson 2 entries, including Alphonso J. McDade serves as mayor of Chapel Hill (1884)
- Abner Benton Roberson 1 entry: The old Nunn tavern building reopens as the Patterson Hotel (late 1894)
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