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Arthur Cleveland Nash

Nash came to Chapel Hill in 1922 as architect for the University of North Carolina's expansion, working with the builder Thomas C. Atwood and the firm McKim, Mead and White. He designed Wilson Library, Kenan Stadium, Graham Memorial, the Carolina Inn and a series of dormitories, and lived in the town through the 1920s.

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StorylineThe fraternity house boom and the University’s land, 1922–19301922–1930 · 17 events · Fraternities put up a run of large chapter houses from 1922 to 1930, and on April 20, 1926 the trustees' executive committee resolved against selling them University land. Delta Kappa Epsilon finished the first of the big Colonial Revival houses in 1923, and three fraternities bought a place on Cameron Avenue for a second fraternity court. Alumni gifts paid for the Big Fraternity Court, five houses on South Columbia Street, and fire destroyed the Phi Delta Theta house in 1927. In May 1929 the University set aside land on the Pittsboro highway for a new fraternity colony, taking lots on old Fraternity Row in exchange. That September the Daily Tar Heel counted 31 fraternities with over 900 members. StorylineThe new University library, 1926–19291926–1929 · 4 events · In September 1926 the University trustees' executive committee asked the legislature for $861,000 for a new library, the largest item in its building request, and the Weekly called the library the University's first need. After Harry Woodburn Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, and Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad. Construction began by March 1928 on the south edge of the campus, and estimates came within the appropriation. Students began using the building in the fall of 1929, and it was dedicated on October 19. Named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, it later became the home of UNC's special collections. StorylineWoollen Gymnasium, the Bowman Gray Pool and the first women’s dormitories, 1935–19411935–1941 · 12 events · Once the state supreme court settled the legal questions in 1935, the University won a Public Works Administration grant of $283,000 toward a physical education building with a swimming pool and a dormitory for graduate women, meeting its own share with a self-supporting bond issue and gifts. The dormitory, later named for Edwin Alderman, was occupied by September 1937. The gymnasium was presented to the University in March 1938, its pool the gift of Mrs. Nathalie Gray and her sons in memory of Bowman Gray, and the trustees named the building for Charles T. Woollen, who had advocated for it. Two more women's dormitories opened in 1939, and by August 1941 the University had six dormitories for women. StorylineThe University’s medical building, 1937–19391937–1939 · 6 events · Between 1937 and 1939 the University built a new building for its school of medicine and Division of Public Health, with state money and a Public Works Administration grant. William de Berniere MacNider became dean of the medical school in 1937, and that summer a site was chosen near the junction of the Pittsboro and Raleigh roads and Washington announced a grant of $185,000. The school of medicine moved in at the start of the fall quarter of 1939, and the Division of Public Health admitted fourteen graduate students to its master of public health course. The building, formally opened that December, cost $428,000 and was named for MacNider. StorylineLosing old Franklin Street buildings, and the Preservation Society, 19661966 · 7 events · In 1966 fire twice gutted the Patterson Building on East Franklin Street, which the Daily Tar Heel had called the only building left of the original town, and its ruins were torn down. The Mary Manning house, where Arthur Nash had boarded, was razed, the Presbyterians sold their 1840s manse, and old buildings on West Franklin Street came down for a shopping center. In September about 50 citizens met at Town Hall to form a Chapel Hill Preservation Society and a committee to save the manse.

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  1. 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 Nash, Thomas C. Atwood Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Kendall, H. Alan Montgomery, H. P. Alan MontgomerySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 52 · Also: The Tar Heel, May 8, 1920, p. 3
  2. 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. People: Thomas C. Atwood Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCSU Libraries, North Carolina Architects and Builders: Nash, Arthur C. (1871-1969)
  3. 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 Nash, Thomas C. Atwood Place: Polk Place, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: H. P. Alan Montgomery · Also mentions: Manning Hall, Murphey Hall, Saunders HallSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 53 · Also: UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Grimes Residence Hall; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House nomination
  4. 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. People: Thomas C. Atwood Place: Alumni Building, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: William KendallSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 16
  5. 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. The Weekly reported the interior torn out in June 1923 to make a modern dormitory with fireproof stairs, and by November it counted the work among the year's finished university projects; the Nash nomination dates it 1924. Place: Old West, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 17 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 28, 1923, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1923, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 1, 1923, p. 1
  6. John M. Booker's colony and the Gimghoul colony require approval of house designs In selling lots on the old Battle place, John M. Booker wrote into his deeds that house exteriors be approved by a consulting architect, A. C. Nash, and the Gimghoul colony's deeds required plans approved by a local committee. Both also set building lines back from the street; the Weekly urged a town building law. People: John M. Booker, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Old Battle place and the Gimghoul colony, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1923, p. 4
  7. 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. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Cornelia Phillips SpencerSearch the index · Open Durham: Nash, Arthur Cleveland · Also: The Tar Heel, March 4, 1925, p. 3
  8. Scaffolding comes down from Graham Memorial, its inside left unfinished With the scaffolding taken down in late March 1925, Arthur C. Nash's Graham Memorial stood finished outside, but the money had run out: the interior was bare concrete and steel, the front balustrade and the pilaster capitals were missing, and the portico on the campus side was only a concrete floor, the Weekly reported. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Graham Memorial, East Franklin Street, UNC, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1925, p. 2
  9. 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. The work came later than 1925: New East was gutted by August 1926 and rebuilt for the geology department, with the Philanthropic Society's hall on the top floor, and was finished by April 1927; geology moved in that May. The trustees' building committee approved New West's interior reconstruction in April 1927 and the trustees set $90,000 for it that June; work began in the fall and was finished in March 1928, for the psychology department. Place: New East and New West, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 17 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1926, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1927, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 13, 1927, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 11, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 22, 1927, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 10, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 2, 1927, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 16, 1928, p. 6
  10. 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. Place: Chapel Hill, 124 South Boundary Street · Also named: Mary S. A. NashSearch the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: National Register Adds Nine North Carolina Historic Places
  11. 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. Place: Chapel Hill, South Building · Also mentions: Old West and Gerrard HallSearch the index · NCSU Libraries, North Carolina Architects and Builders: Nash, Arthur C. (1871-1969) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1926, p. 1
  12. 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. Place: Pi Kappa Alpha house, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, National Register nomination (OR1744), p. 14
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  1. Zeta Psi, Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma jointly buy the Wallace Patterson place on Cameron Avenue The three fraternities together bought Wallace Patterson's place on Cameron Avenue, the old Harris home, for $25,000 as the Weekly understood it, to lay out a second fraternity court: the Zeta Psi house, designed by Arthur C. Nash, in the middle where the Patterson house stood, with Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma on either side. Kenneth Ellington later designed the Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma houses there with Nash's advice so they matched Zeta Psi. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Wallace Patterson place (the old Harris home), Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also named: Kenneth Ellington, Wallace Patterson · Also mentions: Cameron AvenueSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, National Register nomination (OR1744), p. 16 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1926, p. 1
  2. Zeta Psi moves into a new brick house on Cameron Avenue The Zeta Psi chapter left its old hall on Fraternity Row for a new Colonial-style brick house on Cameron Avenue designed by Arthur Nash. Kappa Sigma and Kappa Alpha later built on either side of it to form a court. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also named: Arthur Nash · Also mentions: Fraternity RowSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1928, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 1, 1929, p. 3
  3. William R. Kenan Jr. sees the stadium and adds $28,000 to his gift William Rand Kenan Jr. came to Chapel Hill on September 24 and saw for the first time the stadium he gave the University in memory of his parents. Before leaving he added $28,000 to his original $275,000 to pay for the field house at the south end and other features not in the first plan, bringing the gift to $303,000. People: William Rand Kenan Jr., Charles T. Woollen, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 30, 1927, p. 1
  4. Work begins on the University's new library T. C. Thompson and Brothers set a steam shovel and scores of laborers to work on the foundations of the new library on the south edge of the campus. Estimates came within the $625,000 the legislature had allowed, and the building was expected to be ready by midsummer 1929. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Louis Round Wilson Place: South of South Building, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. C. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 30, 1928, p. 1
  5. 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 Nash, Thomas C. Atwood Place: 321 West Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Cameron AvenueSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 62 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1930, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 14, 1928, p. 1
  6. 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: Cornelia Spencer Love, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill · Also named: Arthur Nash, Cornelia Phillips SpencerSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 65
  7. Builders begin remaking the old Carnegie library into the music building By August 1929 T. C. Thompson and Brothers were reconstructing the interior of the university's former Carnegie library to house the music department, to plans by university architect Arthur C. Nash. Practice rooms were walled with staggered studs and eel-grass quilting to stop sound, and echoing rooms got acoustical plaster. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Former Carnegie library (later Hill Hall), UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. C. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 23, 1929, p. 1
  8. An anonymous alumnus gives $40,000 for a music auditorium and organ at the old library President Harry W. Chase told the trustees' executive committee in Raleigh that an alumnus who asked not to be named had given $40,000 for an auditorium and pipe organ, to be built as an annex to the former library, which was to become the music building. The donor had earlier offered $30,000 for an organ, and architect A. C. Nash drew tentative plans for a hall of about 800 seats. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: former University library (Carnegie library), UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1929, p. 1
  9. The new University Library, later Wilson Library, is dedicated UNC dedicated its new University Library, planned by Arthur Cleveland Nash and William Kendall of McKim, Mead and White, 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: Louis Round Wilson, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William Kendall · Also mentions: University LibrarySearch the index · UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Louis Round Wilson Library; with North Carolina Architects and Builders (NCSU Libraries): McKim, Mead and White · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 25, 1929, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1981, p. 6
  10. UNC trustees vote to tear down Memorial Hall and build a $200,000 auditorium Meeting in Raleigh, the University trustees voted to demolish Memorial Hall, condemned as unsafe, and to put up on the same site an auditorium of about 1,800 seats costing $200,000, with plans by architect Arthur C. Nash. The Weekly noted the new hall would seat about 1,000 fewer than the student body required. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill (trustees met in Raleigh)The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1930, p. 1
  11. Nash retires and leaves Chapel Hill, staying on as consulting architect Nash retired in 1930 and moved to Washington, D.C. H. R. Weeks took his place with the Atwood firm in Chapel Hill, and Nash left by car on Monday, July 21, with Mrs. Nash following by train two days later. He continued as the university's consulting architect until 1953, advising on later campus work. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: H. R. WeeksSearch the index · Open Durham: Nash, Arthur Cleveland · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 4, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 11, 1930, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1930, p. 1
  12. Ground clearing begins for the University's new gymnasium Clearing began on the site between the Tin Can and Fetzer Field, facing the Raleigh road, for a gymnasium with a 250 by 150 foot main floor seating more than 5,500 for games and a wing holding a 165 by 55 foot swimming pool. Arthur C. Nash was supervising architect, working with Atwood and Weeks of Durham, and the building was expected to be finished by the middle of January 1938. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Charles T. Woollen, Oliver K. Cornwell Place: Raleigh Road, south edge of UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Fetzer Field, Tin CanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 9, 1937, p. 1
  13. The University chooses the site for its new medical building After an inspection by the faculty buildings and grounds committee under W. C. Coker, the competition-winning architects Atwood and Weeks, and consulting architect Arthur C. Nash, the University fixed the site on the wooded crest east of the Pittsboro highway near University Drive. Work on the foundations was expected to begin about February. People: William Chambers Coker, Arthur Cleveland Nash, William de Berniere MacNider Place: East side of the Pittsboro road near University Drive, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 26, 1937, p. 1
  14. Cobb and Homewood start the University's new power plant off West Cameron Avenue with a cooling spray pond Chapel Hill contractors Cobb and Homewood began work on the University's new power plant near the laundry at the west end of Cameron Avenue by building a concrete spray pond about 135 feet square to cool the condenser water. Engineer William C. Olsen was drawing plans for the plant, whose exterior consulting architect Arthur C. Nash was to design or approve; work on the building itself was expected in early summer. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: West end of Cameron Avenue near the University laundry, Chapel Hill · Also named: William C. Olsen · Also mentions: Cameron AvenueSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 3, 1939, p. 1
  15. 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. Designed by Watts Carr and built with the help of a PWA grant for about $290,000, the addition passed its final government inspection on January 22, 1940 and was turned over to the University; with its new cafeteria opening on February 2, the enlarged Inn had 92 rooms and 18 apartments. People: John Sprunt Hill, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Watts Carr, Arthur NashSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 60 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 2, 1938, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 26, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 2, 1940, p. 1
  16. Architect H. D. Carter, designer of some 200 Chapel Hill buildings, dies Harry Dennis Carter, who came from New England for the University's postwar building program as assistant to architect Arthur C. Nash and then practiced on his own for more than fifteen years, died at the Veterans' Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia, and his funeral was held in the Chapel Hill Episcopal church. Louis Graves wrote that Carter had designed about 200 Chapel Hill buildings, perhaps 175 of them homes, and Nash credited his steady use of the Colonial style with giving the village its architectural unity. People: H. D. Carter, Arthur Cleveland Nash, Louis Graves Place: Chapel Hill (died at Roanoke, Virginia)Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1941, p. 2
  17. 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 built it for about $41,000, meant as a temporary building to be replaced after the war. The Weekly had already described Davis's design, in the colonial style of the Carolina Inn, when bids were being opened on August 20, 1942, and on December 11 it reported the armory nearly finished, to be occupied when the University opened for the winter term on January 6, 1943. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Archie Royal Davis Place: NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch 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 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1942, p. 1
  18. 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. Place: Mary Manning house, 507 East Franklin Street (formerly 402), Chapel Hill · Also named: Mary Manning · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 19
  19. 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. Place: Baltimore, MarylandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 18

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Arthur Cleveland Nash papers, 1756-1970.

Nash, Arthur Cleveland, 1871-1969 · 1756

The architect Arthur Cleveland Nash, 1871 to 1969, left these papers with material dated from 1756 to 1970, about 1,300 items in four linear feet, collection 4061 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Includes photographs of University of North Carolina buildings. Other subjects include family genealogy and nineteenth century church history in New York, naming Samuel Hanson Cox and Arthur Cleveland Coxe.

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  • Hill Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 2 events here
  • Old West University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 2 events here
  • The Carolina Inn University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 2 events here
  • UNC Libraries University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 2 events here
  • Alumni Building University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Gerrard Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Graham Memorial University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Kenan Stadium University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Manning Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Memorial Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Murphey Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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