MacRae Building

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1. 1925 Cameron MacRae builds the MacRae building at Franklin and Henderson streets Cameron F. MacRae, son of Robert Strange MacRae, put up the MacRae building on the northeast corner. By 1928 it held Clarence Pickard's grocery, the Jefferson-Standard insurance office and a basement barbershop. People: Clarence Pickard Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 231 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1925, p. 1
2. June 9, 1928 Clarence Pickard opens a Home Pride cash-and-carry grocery On June 9, 1928, Clarence Pickard reopened his grocery in the MacRae building on the post-office corner as a cash-and-carry store in the new Home Pride chain, a North Carolina company that bought wholesale for independent owners so they could sell at chain-store prices. He kept telephone orders and delivery for an extra ten cents. People: Clarence Pickard The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 1, 1928, p. 1
3. by May 13, 1932 Collier Cobb, Jr., and W. deR. Scott form the Service Insurance and Realty Company The new corporation succeeded their Service Insurance Agency of nearly five years and added real estate sales, appraisals and rentals, managing the Graham Court apartments, the Carolina Theatre building and, from June 1, the Cobb Terrace homes from its office in the MacRae building on Henderson Street. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 13, 1932, p. 1

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