Libraries, museums and media
The Chapel Hill Museum was a nonprofit town museum in the former public library at 523 East Franklin Street, which opened its first exhibit in February 1998. It closed the building on July 11, 2010, when the town's budget offer fell short of what supporters had sought for upkeep.
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Books, articles, records, and images about Chapel Hill Museum. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.
North Carolina ECHO project photograph of the Chapel Hill Museum building from outside, taken 30 May 2002.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
A second display on the North Carolina Symphony's history at the Chapel Hill Museum, one of the photographs taken there on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
North Carolina pottery on display at the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Civil rights exhibit at the Chapel Hill Museum, tracing the town's own struggle for civil rights, in a photograph taken on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Chapel Hill Museum exhibit on how electricity came to Chapel Hill and on the history of electric lighting, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Ruth Faison Shaw, credited with creating finger painting as an art form, is the subject of the exhibit pictured here at the Chapel Hill Museum. Taken on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
North Carolina Symphony history exhibit at the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Volumes of the Yackety Yack, the yearbook of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spanning many years, in a photograph taken at the Chapel Hill Museum on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Scene at the front entrance of the Chapel Hill Museum, one of a set of photographs of the museum taken on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Paul Green's academic robe and collar at the Chapel Hill Museum, in a photograph made on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Close view of a program from the 1952 season of 'The Lost Colony', Paul Green's outdoor drama staged every summer on the Outer Banks, as shown at the Chapel Hill Museum. Photographed for the North Carolina ECHO project on 30 May 2002.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Artifacts and memorabilia of Paul Green on display at the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project. Green was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Photograph taken on 30 May 2002 at the Chapel Hill Museum for the North Carolina ECHO project, showing the opening section of the museum's exhibit on the playwright Paul Green.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Exhibit at the Chapel Hill Museum of objects from Saratov, Chapel Hill's sister city, photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Gift shop of the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Close view of goods for sale in the Chapel Hill Museum gift shop, photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Bob Timberlake's MG at the Chapel Hill Museum, in a North Carolina ECHO project photograph of 30 May 2002.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Chapel Hill's first motorized fire engine, on display at the Chapel Hill Museum and photographed there on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Short biography of the photographer Catharine Carter at the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Chapel Hill Museum gallery showing work by the photographer Catharine Carter, one of the museum's main exhibition rooms. Photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Outside view of the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Talk on cassette by Rodney Barfield, director of the Chapel Hill Museum, given at the Chapel Hill Historical Society's meeting of 4 January 1998 on how a museum is put together.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, promotional material and notes on the Chapel Hill Museum. Undated folder in the Chapel Hill History series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical file collection (CHHS.001).
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Material produced for exhibitions at the Chapel Hill Museum, kept in an undated folder of the Arts and Literature series in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Two exterior views of the Chapel Hill Museum, undated, from the Chapel Hill Life: General binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Newsletter of the Chapel Hill Heritage Alliance, published from 2014 by the Chapel Hill Historical Society. The alliance brought together the historical society, the Chapel Hill Museum and the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. Volumes with illustrations at 28 cm.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
A twenty two minute video made by the Chapel Hill Museum with the Chapel Hill Fire Department in 2008 to accompany a permanent exhibit on the department's history. Fire chiefs, fire fighters and fire engines in Chapel Hill are depicted, in anecdotes and pictures. One videodisc in color and black and white.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Newsletter of the Chapel Hill Museum, here in a 2006 issue from the town. Topics include the museum as a periodical subject and museums in general, and nothing further about the contents is recorded. Little in the entry goes beyond the title, the issuing museum and the year, so it is a trace of the museum's publishing.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Stone walls, a periodical issued by the Chapel Hill Museum in 2004.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Exhibit boards, photographs, maps and publicity from the Chapel Hill Museum, open from 1996 to 2010, among them its exhibits on Franklin Street and on the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill. The material dates from 1981 to 2010 and fills 45 cubic feet; collection CHHS.014 of the Chapel Hill Historical Society.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Not about Chapel Hill Museum alone: the architectural surveys that cover its town or the county, and maps drawn while it stood. Several of the surveys can be read free online at NC Digital Collections.
Margaret Ruth Little-Stokes's survey of Chapel Hill's town and campus buildings from 1795 to 1975, published by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill in 2006. Chapters run from the first campus buildings through David Swain's romantic campus to midcentury modernism, followed by area surveys of the campus, east and west Chapel Hill, downtown, Northside and the suburbs.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
M. Ruth Little's 2004 architectural history of Chapel Hill and the university campus from 1795 to 1975, written for the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. A 99-page survey with a bibliography.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
M. B. Gatza's final report of the 1992 Chapel Hill historic sites survey for the town Planning Department, with contributions by Beverly C. Kawalec and Catherine Bishir. It covers historic buildings and districts in Chapel Hill in 80 pages.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Kelly A. Lally's October 1992 final report on the architectural survey of Chapel Hill township, including Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Besides the report and a bibliography, most of its 56 pages form an annotated index of the historic buildings surveyed.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Found a book OCPL doesn’t own? You can often borrow it through interlibrary loan at OCPL.
These books don’t necessarily mention Chapel Hill Museum, but they cover where it stands, its kind of building and the land, family and burial records behind it, and they are where a search for a place like this usually goes next. All are at OCPL, most in the Wall Collection.
Steven Stolpen's pictorial history of Chapel Hill, one of the Donning Company's photographic town histories, published in Norfolk, Virginia in 1978. Photographs and portraits carry the story of the town and the university, including references to Thomas Wolfe's years as a student at Carolina. 156 pages with illustrations.
Elizabeth Shreve Ryan's combined histories and tour guides for Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the three towns of Orange County, with the University of North Carolina treated alongside Chapel Hill. Each town gets a narrative history and a tour of its streets and buildings. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2004, 369 pages with illustrations and maps.
Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern's field guide to the historic buildings of the North Carolina Piedmont, arranged county by county from Wake and Franklin in the east to Mecklenburg and Gaston in the west. The Orange County section takes in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro along with the rural county, with entries on individual buildings and maps for finding them. Published 2003, 596 pages with illustrations and maps.
A pocket-sized guide to the historic buildings and landmarks of Chapel Hill, prepared by the Chapel Hill Historical Society and printed by Creative Printers in 1973. Forty pages with illustrations and maps, 14 by 22 cm. Topics include architecture, historic buildings and historic districts in Chapel Hill, and the guide is useful for a walking tour of the older parts of town.
Deed transcripts for the town lots of Chapel Hill and adjoining land from 1790 to the 1930s, compiled by Stewart E. Dunaway. Each transcript keeps only the working facts: grantor and grantee, price, acreage and the metes and bounds of the parcel. Self-published in 2014 as Issue 1G, 702 pages with maps and facsimiles.
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