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Person Hall

Person Hall was built from 1795 to 1798 as the university chapel and named for trustee Thomas Person, whose gift of $1,050 completed it; commencement was held there until 1837. Later divided into classrooms, it was restored after an 1877 fire and given rear wings in 1886 and 1892 for the university's first chemistry laboratories.

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The Friends of Person Hall : report of activities for 1942-1943

1943

Annual report of the Friends of Person Hall for 1942 to 1943, signed by its chairman, Gladys Hall Coates. Person Hall was the university's art gallery in Chapel Hill before the Ackland opened, and the report covers its finance and history. Ten leaves, 28 centimeters.

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The story of Person Hall

Coates, Gladys Hall · 1943

Gladys Hall Coates recounts the history of Person Hall on the University of North Carolina campus, the building that by the 1940s housed the Person Hall Art Gallery. The account appeared as volume three, number two of the gallery's bulletin in April 1943.

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Person Hall becomes modern art gallery

Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972 · 1937

Frank Porter Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, on the conversion of Person Hall into a gallery for modern art in 1937. It marks the start of the Person Hall Art Gallery on the campus.

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Person Hall: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1880

Seven photographs of Person Hall on the UNC campus, dated from 1880. Views include the building with what may be the Davie Poplar, two students walking past, its entrance and a stone lion on the exterior wall. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.

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Published by or for this institution

Inaugural exhibition : Person Hall Art Gallery of the University of North Carolina : January 15 to February 21, 1937

Person Hall Art Gallery (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1936

Catalog of the inaugural exhibition at Person Hall Art Gallery on the University of North Carolina campus, held January 15 to February 21, 1937, listing the works of art on view. Person Hall, the second building erected on the campus, had served many uses before its conversion into a gallery and laboratory for the Department of Fine Arts.

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Person Hall 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.

The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina: 1795-1975

Little-Stokes, Margaret Ruth · 2006

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.

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The town and gown architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975

Little, M. Ruth · 2004 · Preservation Society of Chapel Hill

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Chapel Hill historic sites survey : final report.

Gatza, M. B. · 1992 · Chapel Hill Planning Department

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

When Chapel Hill was a village

Love, Cornelia Spencer, 1892-1981 · 1976 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

Cornelia Spencer Love's recollections of Chapel Hill as a village, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1976 with drawings by John V. Allcott. Love lived from 1892 to 1981, and the book covers Chapel Hill biography, the town's social life and customs, and the faculty of the university before 1962. viii and 87 pages with illustrations.

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[Map of the site of the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill].

Daniel, John (Surveyor) · 1792

John Daniel, a surveyor employed by the university trustees, made this pen and ink map of the future university site in 1792. It shows the tracts of land, the springs and creeks, nearby mills and the roads running from Fayetteville to Hillsborough, Pittsborough to Petersburg, Hillsborough to Newberne, and on to Raleigh. William S. Powell describes the map in First state university.

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A plan of the situation of ye University, ye ornamental ground, ye adjacent village : the lands belonging to ye trustees together with ye springs : June 1st, 1795.

1795

Dated June 1, 1795, this pen and ink plan lays out the University of North Carolina site in its earliest years: the village, the cleared ground, the avenue, the ornamental ground, the lands belonging to the trustees and the springs. Archibald Henderson reproduced it in The campus of the first state university and identified it as the lost 1795 map by Charles W. Harris. Manuscript map, 30 x 36 cm.

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Plan of the village at the University with the adjoining lands belonging to the institution.

1804

Early hand-drawn plan of the University village at Chapel Hill and the lands around it, which Archibald Henderson dated to between 1797 and 1812. It shows town lots with owners' names, Main Building (South Building), the steward's and president's houses, the chapel, Franklin Street and a Grand Avenue, plus a partial list of buyers at the 1793 lot sale.

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Plan of the village of Chapel Hill on a scale of 200 yards to an inch.

1812

An early manuscript plan of Chapel Hill drawn at 200 yards to the inch, dated 1812, with a note on the verso reading September 4, 1817. It copies an earlier pen and ink plot in the possession of William Pannill, taken in turn from one by John Craig, and it marks boundary lines, town lots with some owners named, the University buildings, the president's lot, the chapel and the preparatory school.

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Map of Chapel Hill as it was in 1875 to 1885

Carter, H. D. (Henry Dennis), -1941 · 1934

Henry Dennis Carter's reconstruction, drawn as a blueprint in 1934, of Chapel Hill as it stood between 1875 and 1885, showing the buildings of the village. A note on the map says the information came from old residents who gave it to Mary L. Thornton.

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[Map of Chapel Hill and vicinity].

Harris, Hunter Lee, 1866-1893 · 1888 · Hunter Lee Harris?

Dating from 1888 and attributed to Hunter Lee Harris, a map of Chapel Hill and its vicinity, reproduced as a photocopy measuring 22 by 37 centimeters. Harris died in 1893, which brackets the drawing to the late nineteenth century. An early depiction of the streets of the village and the land around it.

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[Map of Chapel Hill].

1895

Pen-and-ink manuscript map of Chapel Hill dated 1852, with a table of measurements, showing the University campus, the village around it, street widths and layout, and the town limits. Later notes attributed to Kemp P. Battle give the longitude and latitude of landmarks as measured from atop New East Hall in 1880.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.

1925

Sanborn Map Company fire insurance map of Chapel Hill, June 1925, on eleven sheets, with Carrboro also drawn. Sanborn maps recorded the outline, construction and use of each building for fire insurers, so the set shows both towns block by block in the mid 1920s.

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Map of Chapel Hill & vicinity.

1933

Street and property map of Chapel Hill and the surrounding country, revised to 1 January 1933 and printed in the town. Topics include streets, real property and the historical geography of Chapel Hill along with maps of the University of North Carolina in its 1793 to 1962 period. A useful sheet for tracing lot lines and street names as they stood at the start of the 1930s.

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    Where to look on the shelf

    These books don’t necessarily mention Person Hall, 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.

    Histories of the town and county

    • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.656 STO Chapel Hill: A Pictorial History Stolpen, Steven · 1978

      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.

    • Foundational · 975.656 RYAN Orange County Trio: Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro, North Carolina, Histories and Tour Guides Ryan, Elizabeth Shreve · 2004

      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.

    Buildings and surveys

    • Foundational · NC 720.975 BIS A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina Bishir, Catherine W. · 2003

      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.

    • Foundational · NC 917.56 HIS Historic Buildings and Landmarks of Chapel Hill, N.C Chapel Hill Historical Society · 1973

      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.

    In the chronology

    Storylines about this site, each with a page of its own:

    1. Thomas Person gives $1,050 to complete the university chapel, later named Person Hall Trustee Thomas Person gave $1,050 to finish the chapel then under construction at Chapel Hill. The trustees thanked him for his liberality and the building, completed in 1798, was named Person Hall. UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Person Hall
    2. The university makes David Caldwell of Guilford a Doctor of Divinity At the 1810 commencement the university gave honorary doctorates of divinity to David Caldwell, James Hall and James McRee. Caldwell's Latin diploma, dated in Person Hall, calls Chapel Hill Sacrarii Mons, the hill of the chapel. People: Joseph Caldwell Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 186
    3. A sacred music society forms and an organ is ordered for the university chapel The Raleigh Register reported a new society for the study of sacred music at the university and an organ, paid for by private gifts, already built in New York. The trustees later paid $50 to bring it to Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 230
    4. Faculty members start a Sunday school in Person Hall Members of the faculty, helped by their wives and some students, started a Sunday school that met in Person Hall, then the college chapel. Spencer places it in the decades when the Presbyterian faculty led religious life in the village. Cornelia Phillips Spencer, The Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill (1897), scan p. 3
    5. Chapel Hill celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of independence The village marked the semicentennial of the Declaration of Independence with a procession to Person Hall, where Revolutionary veteran Major Henderson read the Declaration and William McCauley gave the oration. A dinner at S. B. Alsobrook's hotel and a ball to Ilai Nunn's violin followed. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 313
    6. Archibald D. Murphey gives the first commencement-eve oration in Person Hall On June 27, 1827, the day before commencement, Murphey delivered an oration in Person Hall at Chapel Hill under the appointment of the Dialectic Society. Addressing the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, he argued that a college course only prepared the mind for later learning; the speech was printed and reissued in 1843. Stanford SearchWorks: An oration delivered in Person hall, Chapel Hill, on the 27th June, 1827 (2nd ed., Raleigh, 1843)
    7. Thirty students walk out of Sunday worship in the chapel One Sunday morning thirty students left divine service in the chapel one by one. The faculty examined each; thirteen gave acceptable excuses and the other seventeen denied any plan, so the case was dropped. People: Cadwallader Jones Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 299
    8. Gerrard Hall is finished and holds its first commencement Gerrard Hall, the new chapel begun more than a decade earlier, was completed in 1837 under carpenter Thomas Waitt, and that year's commencement was held in it. The Raleigh Register described a roomy building with large galleries, and the old chapel, Person Hall, was soon given over to classrooms. People: Thomas Waitt Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 431
    9. Person Hall is partitioned into four classrooms With Gerrard Hall now the chapel, the old chapel, Person Hall, was divided by thick walls and chimneys into four recitation rooms for the professors of Latin, Greek and rhetoric and the tutor of ancient languages. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 554
    10. Students kill two of Professor Mitchell's hogs and leave them in the chapel On the night of January 29, 1842, students killed two hogs belonging to Elisha Mitchell and left them in the chapel, with a dead dog in the tutors' pen, for morning prayers. A few days later the culprits mailed Mitchell a polite letter with ten dollars, and he sent six back through his servant Dave. On May 2 the faculty dismissed a freshman, J. P. Barnes, for killing the hogs and carrying them into the old chapel, Person Hall. Internet Archive: Ruffin Wirt Tomlinson, Journal (1841-1842), ed. John L. Sanders, North Carolina Historical Review 30 (1953), p. 242
    11. Fire guts Person Hall Person Hall, the old chapel finished in 1798 and recently given to the chemistry department, burned on February 6, 1877, apparently from a stovepipe set too close to a roof rafter. The thick walls stood, the loss came to about $1,000, and gifts from A. F. Redd, J. S. Carr and others paid to restore it. By mid-April workmen under a Hillsborough builder had raised a new roof and new window frames on the old walls. People: Julian S. Carr, Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Samuel Field Phillips Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 127 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1877, p. 3
    12. Two rear wings are added to Person Hall as chemistry laboratories The university's only other building work of the late 1800s besides Memorial Hall was a pair of wings on the back of Person Hall, added in 1886 and 1892 to hold its first chemistry laboratories. NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 39
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    1. Venable and student William R. Kenan Jr. demonstrate calcium carbide in Person Hall Chemistry professor Francis P. Venable and student William R. Kenan Jr. demonstrated the industrial uses of calcium carbide, the source of acetylene gas, in Person Hall. People: Francis Preston Venable UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Chronological List of Events
    2. The new chemistry building is completed and Person Hall goes to medicine The university spent $45,000 of the state grant on a chemistry building that held three times as many students as the old one. The rest refitted Person Hall, the old chemistry building, for the Medical Department and New East for biology. People: Charles H. Herty Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 658
    3. Lamar Stringfield becomes conductor of the University's Faculty Orchestra Lamar Stringfield agreed to conduct the Faculty Orchestra through its third season, which opened with a meeting in Person Hall on October 9, 1930, with D. A. McPherson, its conductor for two seasons, as concertmaster. Several of Stringfield's compositions were to be played that year. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 3, 1930, p. 1
    4. Civil Works crews begin turning Person Hall into the University's art museum Revived after the February cuts, the Civil Works project to make the old Person Hall into an art gallery was under way by early March, and by late March the roof was off and the windows out. A federal allotment of $10,500 was to be matched by about $11,000 from friends of the University led by Katherine Pendleton Arrington, whose talks with Metropolitan Museum experts shaped Atwood and Weeks's plans for display rooms, ateliers and skylights. The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 23, 1934, p. 1
    5. A federal grant restarts the rebuilding of Person Hall as an art museum A special $3,000 relief grant, obtained through the state relief director, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, and limited to skilled labor, let the University resume rebuilding Person Hall, the ante-bellum building that had housed chemistry, pharmacy and music, as an art museum. H. D. Carter, the FERA construction supervisor for Orange, planned to roof it and put in windows and doors within five weeks; the work, begun as a CWA project the winter before, had stopped for months with the building a roofless shell. People: H. D. Carter The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 14, 1934, p. 1
    6. President Graham and Leila Mechlin announce plans for a fine arts center in Person Hall At the North Carolina Art Society meeting in Raleigh on December 3, 1934, President Graham and Leila Mechlin of the American Federation of Arts described plans to make Person Hall, once a chapel and later the home of medicine, chemistry, pharmacy and music, a center for the fine arts, with lectures, a Grand Central Galleries exhibition and a traveling exhibit in the spring. The Weekly wrote that the gutted hall had been converted into an art museum with CWA and ERA labor and private gifts, Mrs. Katherine Pendleton Arrington among the main donors, but it was still a shell: relief money paid to roof and enclose it in 1935, and the Person Hall Art Gallery opened on January 15, 1937. People: Frank Porter Graham The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 7, 1934, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1935, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 3, 1936, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1937, p. 1
    7. Emergency relief money lets work go forward on Person Hall The Emergency Relief Administration allotted enough money to finish closing in Person Hall, the old chapel being made into the University's art museum, and the work was going forward in June 1935. People: H. D. Carter The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1935, p. 5
    8. The University opens the Person Hall Art Gallery The rebuilt Person Hall opened as the University's art gallery on the evening of January 15, 1937, after dedication exercises in Hill Music Hall at which Everett V. Meeks, dean of the Yale school of fine arts, spoke. Its first show of about 60 paintings, lent by the National Gallery of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and dealers, stayed up until February 21; a government grant and gifts from Katherine Arrington and others paid for the rebuilding. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1937, p. 1
    9. Person Hall shows Frances Benjamin Johnston's photographs of early North Carolina architecture The University's art gallery opened a show of works acquired in 1937, led by seventy photographs of North Carolina buildings from before 1850 by Frances Benjamin Johnston, given by John Sprunt Hill to the Southern Historical Collection, with Carnegie Corporation facsimiles of modern paintings and reproductions of Pueblo Indian paintings. Art department head Russell T. Smith gave the opening gallery talk. People: John Sprunt Hill The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1937, p. 1
    10. An exhibition of seventy sculptures by Anna Hyatt Huntington opens at Person Hall Seventy pieces by Anna Hyatt Huntington, mostly animals and birds in bronze and aluminum along with her Diana and her equestrian Joan of Arc and El Cid, went on view in the Person Hall art gallery through November 25; the Weekly called it the first important collection of sculpture ever shown in North Carolina. About 800 people came the first two days, classes from all three Chapel Hill schools, the school for Black students among them, were taken through by curator Vincent Hartgen, and students of the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham came as well. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 18, 1938, p. 6
    11. Anna Hyatt Huntington gives her bronze Youth to the University Sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington gave the University Youth, one of the larger bronzes of the exhibition shown at Person Hall that fall, to stand on the Person Hall terrace where it had stood during the show, once it came back from an exhibition at the Gibbes Memorial gallery in Charleston. Russell T. Smith, head of the art department, called it one of her finest works and particularly fitting for the campus. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 13, 1939, p. 1
    12. John V. Allcott succeeds Russell Smith as head of UNC's art department John Volney Allcott, 35, who had studied in Chicago, Florence and Paris and taught at New York University and Hunter College, arrived as chief of the University's art department, succeeding Russell Smith, who had left in June for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He planned a year of exhibits in the Person Hall gallery with stress on work done in North Carolina, and Harriet Dyer Adams, formerly of the Brooklyn Museum, came as curator. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1940, p. 1
    13. Person Hall gallery shows a loan exhibition of European paintings from the Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art lent the University a collection of British, Dutch and Flemish paintings, among them Van Dyck's portrait of Miss Christyn and Sir Thomas Lawrence's John Julius Angerstein, shown in the Person Hall Art Gallery from October 6 through October 27 under its new curator, Harriet Dyer Adams, with gallery talks by Clemen Sommer and John V. Allcott. The Weekly reported it was the first time the collection had been shown outside the Metropolitan. People: John V. Allcott The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 25, 1940, p. 2
    14. Friends of Person Hall is organized to support the University art gallery A group of Chapel Hill women organized the Friends of Person Hall, with Mrs. W. D. Carmichael as chairman, to support the exhibitions of the Person Hall Art Gallery through dues of one to five dollars. Art department head John V. Allcott described the gallery's shows, art studio, reference library and picture rentals. People: John V. Allcott The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1941, p. 3
    15. Person Hall shows Clare Leighton's Southern Harvest engravings, made in Chapel Hill The Person Hall Art Gallery showed wood engravings from Clare Leighton's new book Southern Harvest, with copies of the book on display. The Weekly had reported in December that most of the illustrations were engraved in Chapel Hill and that the book, published by Macmillan with a foreword by Paul Green, was largely of North Carolina interest. People: Paul Green The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1943, p. 2
    16. Person Hall Art Gallery shows Josef and Anni Albers and Bauhaus-trained artists The Person Hall Art Gallery opened an exhibition of Josef Albers's abstract paintings and Anni Albers's textiles, both of Black Mountain College, with ceramics by Marguerite Wildenhain, introduced as work of the Bauhaus school. It ran through November 28 with a table of books on the Bauhaus and gallery talks by acting director Harriet Dyer Adams. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 12, 1943, p. 5
    17. Bayard Wootten is to talk on her Mobile photographs at Person Hall Bayard Wootten was to give a talk, A Photographer Discusses Mobile in the Spring, on Sunday afternoon, August 18, in the small gallery at Person Hall, where a collection of the pictures she had made in Mobile that spring was on exhibit. The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1946, p. 8
    18. John Dee Holeman and Joe and Odell Thompson are to open UNC's bicentennial folk heritage series Bluesman and buckdancer John Dee Holeman and the Mebane string band duo Joe and Odell Thompson were announced to open From the Outer Banks to the Blue Ridge: A Celebration of North Carolina's Folk Heritage at 2 p.m. on March 23, 1994, in Person Hall. The free series was part of UNC's Bicentennial Observance. People: Joe Thompson DigitalNC: The Carolina Times, March 19, 1994 (Bicentennial series celebrates N.C. folk art traditions) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1994, p. 3
    19. A tie vote keeps Person Hall off the Study List UNC's campus preservation specialist Paul Kapp asked that Person Hall, already a contributing building in the Chapel Hill Historic District, be recognized on its own. Staff doubted how much of what was visible predated a 1977 renovation and urged the university to treat its old buildings as a district. On February 13, 2003 a motion to place the hall on the Study List split three to three, the chair voted no, and the committee deferred it; the Beta Theta Pi house was also deferred to await a possible Fraternity Court district. NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 972

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