Hume House (Southerland-Hume-Cone House)

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1. 1887 Professor Thomas Hume buys the house across from the Baptist church Burned out of the president's house, Professor Thomas Hume bought the West Franklin Street house opposite the Baptist church. It had been home to the Baptist minister Needham Byron Cobb until the congregation turned its school building into a parsonage. People: Thomas Hume Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 151
2. By September 1916 Bank cashier Milton E. Hogan buys the Thomas Hume house on West Franklin Street By early September 1916 Milton E. Hogan, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, had bought the West Franklin Street residence of Dr. Thomas Hume, and in January 1917 the News reported him building an addition to 'his house, the Hume place.' The house later passed to Caesar Cone, a fraternity and the University, and in 1943 held the high school. People: Thomas Hume, Milton E. Hogan Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 7, 1916, p. 1; The News (Chapel Hill), January 11, 1917, p. 1
3. 1935 Caesar Cone sells the former Hume house, a Zeta Beta Tau home, to the University Cone had bought the house from Milton Hogan between 1929 and 1933 and rented it to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He sold it to the University in 1935; the high school used it after the 1942 fire. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 255
4. October 1943 Chapel Hill High School moves into the old Hume house on West Franklin Street After fourteen months of classes in the Baptist church following the 1942 fire, the high school moved into the former Hume house, once the Hogan house and the Zeta Beta Tau house, owned by Caesar Cone. It held the principal's office, the library and four classrooms, with larger classes in the elementary school basement. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 8, 1943, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 12, 1944, p. 1
5. June 1950 The pre-Civil War Hume house is moved across the Chapel Hill High School grounds To clear ground for a new high school building, the pre-Civil War house known in turn as the Hume, Hogan and Cone house was put on rollers and moved to the west edge of the school lot, still facing Franklin Street, for use as offices and classrooms. People: Milton E. Hogan, Thomas Hume The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 2, 1950, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 2, 1950, p. 12; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1950, p. 1

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