Kendall B. Waitt

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1. between 1836 and 1838 Isaac J. Collier and Kendall B. Waitt go into partnership in a Chapel Hill cabinet shop Isaac J. Collier went into partnership with Kendall B. Waitt, a Chapel Hill artisan from Massachusetts, in a cabinet shop in the later 1830s, after his partnership with Jones Watson. The two worked together for years, later as building contractors. Their firm, Collier & Wait, was dissolved by mutual consent on March 12, 1847, as a notice signed by both and dated November 26, 1847 announced. People: Isaac J. Collier, Kendall B. Waitt, Jones Watson Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · North Carolina Architects and Builders, NC State University Libraries: Collier, Isaac J. (b. ca. 1810) · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, December 2, 1847, p. 3
2. 1844–1848 Dabney Cosby takes the masonry subcontract for the lengthening of Old East and Old West Chapel Hill contractors Isaac J. Collier and Kendall B. Waitt subcontracted the masonry of the university additions to Cosby, who put enslaved workmen including the brothers Osborne and Albert on the job. Cosby and the architect Alexander Jackson Davis quarrelled over the drawings, and president David L. Swain asked the Hillsborough builder John Berry to look at the brickwork, which Berry reported was defective. People: Dabney Cosby, John Berry, David L. Swain, Alexander Jackson Davis, Isaac J. Collier, Kendall B. Waitt Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Albert, OsborneIn the index: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · North Carolina Architects and Builders, NC State University Libraries: Cosby, Dabney (1779-1862)
3. December 23, 1844 The university awards Isaac J. Collier and Kendall B. Waitt the contract for the Old East and Old West additions On December 23, 1844, Collier and Waitt won the contract to build A. J. Davis's three-story brick additions to Old East and Old West, at $9,360. They subcontracted the masonry to Dabney Cosby; the next day trustee secretary Charles Manly asked that they hire his enslaved carpenters. People: Isaac J. Collier, Alexander Jackson Davis, Dabney Cosby, Charles Manly, Kendall B. Waitt Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · North Carolina Architects and Builders, NC State University Libraries: Collier, Isaac J. (b. ca. 1810)
4. 1848 Literary societies move into new halls in the enlarged Old East and Old West The northward extensions of Old East and Old West, designed by A. J. Davis and built by Isaac J. Collier and Kendall B. Waitt for $9,360, were finished in 1848 with debating halls and library alcoves for the two societies. At the Dialectic opening James Mebane, the society's first president in 1795, sat beside the student president, Kemp P. Battle. People: Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Alexander Jackson Davis, Kemp Plummer Battle, Isaac J. Collier, Samuel Field Phillips, James Mebane, Kendall B. Waitt Place: Old EastSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 513