Arthur Cleveland Nash

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1919 to 1920 The university hires Aberthaw and McKim, Mead and White for its expansion For the postwar building program the university engaged the Aberthaw firm in 1919 to survey the campus and rework its plan, and by May 1920 it had retained the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White, led by William Kendall, as consulting architects for red brick Colonial Revival buildings. Local supervision came later, under Thomas C. Atwood from 1921, with H. P. Alan Montgomery and, from 1922, Arthur C. Nash. People: Arthur Cleveland NashSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 52
2. 1922 Arthur Cleveland Nash comes to Chapel Hill as the university's architect Nash moved to Chapel Hill in 1922 to serve as architect for the University of North Carolina during its major expansion, working with the builder Thomas C. Atwood and the consulting firm McKim, Mead and White of New York.Search the index · NCSU Libraries, North Carolina Architects and Builders: Nash, Arthur C. (1871-1969)
3. 1922-1923 Murphey, Saunders and Manning halls are designed in the university's building office On the east side of the new south quadrangle, H. P. Alan Montgomery, architect in the university's building office under Thomas C. Atwood, laid out a smaller court of classroom buildings, with McKim, Mead and White as consulting architects: Murphey Hall for languages and literature, Saunders Hall (now Carolina Hall) for history and social science, and Manning Hall, with an Ionic portico and cupola, for the law school. People: Arthur Cleveland NashSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 53
4. by 1923 Thomas C. Atwood and Arthur C. Nash form the firm Atwood and Nash, Architects and Engineers The firm served as the university's local architects and engineers through the 1920s building campaign, working under McKim, Mead and White's William Kendall. It kept its office in the Alumni Building and another in Durham.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 16
5. 1924 Arthur C. Nash renovates Old West Nash's rebuilding of the 1822 dormitory, done alongside the work on Old East, left the brick walls as about the only original material.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 17
6. 1925 Arthur C. Nash renovates New East and New West The two 1858-61 buildings were reworked under Nash, part of a series of renovations that left only the brick shells of the early campus buildings.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 17
7. 1925 Nash designs Spencer Hall, the university's first dormitory for women Spencer Hall, designed by Nash and under construction in 1924, opened in 1925 as the first dormitory for women at the University of North Carolina; the trustees gave it Cornelia Phillips Spencer's name in 1927. It was one of a series of dormitories he designed on the campus through the 1920s.Search the index · Open Durham: Nash, Arthur Cleveland
8. 1926 Nash builds his own house in Chapel Hill Nash designed and built a Colonial Revival house in Chapel Hill as his personal residence, at the address now numbered 124 South Boundary Street. The state listed it on the National Register on October 26, 2017 as the property most closely associated with his career.Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: National Register Adds Nine North Carolina Historic Places
9. 1926–1927 Nash renovates South Building and adds its portico Nash carried out the renovation of South Building and added the portico in 1926 and 1927, part of his remodelling of older campus buildings that also took in Old East, Old West and Gerrard Hall.Search the index · NCSU Libraries, North Carolina Architects and Builders: Nash, Arthur C. (1871-1969)
10. 1926 Pi Kappa Alpha builds a $35,000 chapter house designed by Atwood and Nash Pi Kappa Alpha put up a new house in 1926 for about $35,000, one of the fraternity houses drawn by the university's architects Atwood and Nash.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, National Register nomination (OR1744), p. 14
11. December 1928 Chi Psi announces a Norman-style house for West Cameron Avenue Chi Psi announced plans for a $50,000 Norman-style stone house by the university architects Atwood and Nash on the old McCauley place on Cameron Avenue. The design broke with the campus's Colonial theme: steep slate roof, casement windows with stone trim, an arched entrance and a stone terrace. The old McCauley house, the chapter's home, burned on Christmas night 1929, and in November 1930 the chapter was still without a new house. People: William Chambers Coker, Arthur Cleveland NashSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 62
12. 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
13. October 19, 1929 The new University Library, later Wilson Library, is dedicated UNC dedicated its new University Library, designed by Arthur Cleveland Nash, on October 19, 1929, weeks after students began using the building that fall. It served as the main campus library for decades, was named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, and after a 1984 to 1987 renovation became the home of UNC's special collections. People: Arthur Cleveland NashSearch the index · UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Louis Round Wilson Library
14. 1930 Nash retires and leaves Chapel Hill, staying on as consulting architect Nash retired in 1930 and moved to Washington, D.C., but continued as the university's consulting architect until 1953, advising on later campus work.Search the index · Open Durham: Nash, Arthur Cleveland
15. 1940 The Carolina Inn completes the first of its rear additions The Carolina Inn, which Arthur Nash designed for John Sprunt Hill, gained a rear addition in 1940, the first of three (later ones in 1970 and 1995) that tracked the university's growth. People: John Sprunt Hill, Arthur Cleveland NashSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 60
16. September 1942 Archie Royal Davis's plans for the Naval Armory are settled and building begins After weeks of argument with consulting architect Arthur C. Nash, Durham architect Archie Royal Davis had his design for a Georgian Revival armory approved in mid-September 1942; R. K. Stewart and Son began building it late that year for about $41,000, meant as a temporary building to be replaced after the war. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Archie Royal DavisSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 32
17. 1966 The Mary Manning house on East Franklin Street, where Arthur Nash boarded, is torn down Nash lodged with Mary Manning from his arrival in 1922 until his own house was finished in 1926. The house stood at what is now 507 East Franklin Street, first numbered 402.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 19
18. 1969 Arthur Cleveland Nash, UNC's architect of the 1920s, dies in Baltimore He died at the home of his daughter Katharine and her husband, Edward Caldwell, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 18