Crystal Palace (Nancy Hilliard house)

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1. 1853 Nancy Hilliard builds the house students called the Crystal Palace After selling her hotel, Hilliard built a large two-story house east of it on land she had bought from Lucy Watts. Students nicknamed it the Crystal Palace for its many big windows. People: Nancy Hilliard Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 91
2. 1869 Solomon Pool buys Nancy Hilliard's house, the Crystal Palace, at a sheriff's sale When the hotel keeper Nancy Hilliard went bankrupt, university president Solomon Pool bought her Franklin Street home, known as the Crystal Palace, at a sheriff's sale for $150. He let Col. Hugh B. Guthrie and his wife Jane, a daughter of Hudson Cave, move in, which Bryant reads as a way of forcing Hilliard out. People: Solomon Pool, Nancy Hilliard, Hugh B. Guthrie Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 125
3. By 1883 Algernon S. Barbee buys and moves into the "Crystal Palace" on Franklin Street By 1883 Algernon S. Barbee had bought the Franklin Street house known as the Crystal Palace and moved into it. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143
4. between 1939 and 1943 Alpha Gamma Delta moves into the old "Crystal Palace" on East Franklin Street The sorority took over the house known as the Crystal Palace, once Algernon Barbee's home. People: Algernon S. Barbee Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 269
5. 1954 The University tears down the Crystal Palace on East Franklin Street for planetarium parking The University had bought the old building known as the Crystal Palace in 1945. In 1954 it razed it and turned the lot into parking for Morehead Planetarium, with a large sundial in a rose garden at the center. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 303

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