Coker Hills

In the chronology

Dated events connected with this place, in date order. See these 10 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1960 to 1961 Henry Roland Totten develops the first sections of Coker Hills Coker College hired UNC botanist Henry Roland Totten, a colleague of the late W. C. Coker, to develop its Estes Drive land, and the first sections of Coker Hills went up along Elliott and Clayton roads in 1960 and 1961. The rest of the neighborhood was built out through 1972. People: Henry Roland Totten Also named: W. C. Coker · Also mentions: Estes DriveSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 79
2. September 27, 1960 Chapel Hill annexes Coker Hills and a new fraternity court tract After a sparsely attended hearing the aldermen unanimously annexed the Coker Hills subdivision east of Estes Hills, owned by the trustees of Coker College, and the University's proposed fraternity court along Mason Farm Road near Finley Golf Course, adding about a tenth to the town's area. The Coker Hills owners were to pay for its sewer and gas lines, curbing and paving. People: Henry Roland Totten Also mentions: Estes HillsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 29, 1960, p. 6
3. 1963 Arthur Cogswell designs a barrel-vaulted concrete house for David Hill In 1963 Cogswell built a concrete house with a barrel-vaulted roof at 205 Wood Circle in Coker Hills for Duke engineering professor David Hill, an example of the period's trials of new building materials. People: Arthur Cogswell Also named: David HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
4. March 4, 1963 Coker Hills residents name their neighborhood park for surveyor E. C. Leonard Residents voted to name their one-acre park lot on Clayton Road for the late E. C. Leonard, surveyor of the Coker properties and a consultant in planning the playground. They were paying privately to develop it that spring, and Dr. William Waddell was elected president of the E. C. Leonard Playground, to be incorporated. Also named: E. C. Leonard, William WaddellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 7, 1963, p. 1
5. 1964 Arthur Cogswell designs the Koch House on Clayton Road In 1964 Cogswell designed a one-story, flat-roofed house for botany professor Arthur Koch at 401 Clayton Road in Coker Hills: a floor plate projecting from a block base, with glass walls opening to a deck over a pond. It received a North Carolina AIA award. People: Arthur Cogswell Also named: Arthur KochSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
6. 1966 Arthur Cogswell designs a pyramid-roofed house for Marion Townend At 411 Clayton Road in Coker Hills, Cogswell designed a house in 1966 for Marion Townend under a tall pyramidal roof. A skylight at the peak lights the central living room and the rooms around it, whose light shifts as the sun moves. People: Arthur Cogswell Also named: Marion TownendSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 93
7. 1969 Cogswell/Hausler design Arthur Cogswell's second house on Elliott Road The firm's 1969 house for Arthur Cogswell at 308 Elliott Road is a flat-roofed steel-frame building, plain and white outside, whose glass-walled rooms wrap around a terrace with a heated pool. It won a North Carolina AIA award. People: Werner Hausler, Arthur CogswellSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 94
8. September 29, 1980 Coker Hills residents petition the Town Council to close Horace Williams Airport At a Town Council public hearing on a University zoning amendment that would let it build a hangar at Horace Williams Airport for Area Health Education Centers aircraft and end flight training there, Coker Hills West residents presented a petition with 466 signatures asking that the airport be closed. School board chairman Phyllis Sockwell asked the council to phase the airport out by 1990 because of the schools under its approach path; the council took no action and sent the proposal to the Planning Board. People: Joe Straley Also named: Phyllis Sockwell · Also mentions: Horace Williams AirportSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 1, 1980, p. 1
9. February 23, 1981 Town Council approves Coker Hills West, a subdivision near the Horace Williams runway The Town Council voted 6-2 to approve a preliminary sketch for Coker Hills West, a subdivision lying partly inside the flight hazard zone of Horace Williams Airport, after Town Manager Gene Shipman reported that it met town standards except for that location. Council members Joe Straley and R.D. Smith voted no, Smith saying approval did not protect people's health and safety. People: Joe Straley, R. D. Smith Also named: Gene Shipman · Also mentions: Horace Williams AirportSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1981, p. 3
10. July 1987 Coker Hills residents petition against a proposed Kroger on East Franklin Street The Coker Hills Neighborhood Association gave the Town Council a petition with 700 signatures opposing a 49,000-square-foot, 24-hour Kroger planned on six acres between Milton Avenue and Elliott Road, citing traffic, noise and the town's entrance; Kroger had not yet asked for the needed rezoning from residential to business.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 28, 1987, p. 6