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William Percival, an English architect working in North Carolina in the 1850s, designed New East and New West, the university dormitories begun in June 1858 and modeled on the classical State Capitol.
Source: NCpedia: Percival, William
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William Bushong's article on William Percival, the English architect who worked in North Carolina between 1857 and 1860. Pages 310 to 339 with illustrations, drawn from a journal issue dated 1980. The article includes nineteenth century buildings at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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