About 1843 Samuel Phillips, a lawyer who taught at the university, put up a small stuccoed law office on East Franklin Street. Its stepped-gable Tudor porch matches the Eagle Hotel annex built for Polk's 1847 visit; Dabney Cosby probably built it, and the design may be his or A. J. Davis's. A preparatory school for boys reportedly met in the office in 1847. Phillips taught law there from 1854; in 1859 he closed his law school, went back to practice and shared the building with Judge William Horn Battle, who later taught law classes in it.
About 1894, after the owner, Margaret Miller, died, her only heir, Mary Jane Cooper, sold the old Sam Phillips house on East Franklin Street, with the old law office, to the merchant Adam A. Kluttz. In 1916 Professor William Stanley "Bully" Bernard rented the law office from the Kluttzes, remodeled the inside and made it his home. From the 1950s it was rented to students.
By early June 1982 the Chapel Hill Preservation Society had bought the building, across from the University President's house and beside the Delta Delta Delta house at Hillsborough and Franklin streets, for $66,000 and offered it for sale to a buyer who would restore it. The society chose a couple's offer to restore it as a private residence over more commercial proposals. By October the buyers were stabilizing the water-damaged building and planned an addition to the rear, with restoration, estimated at about $80,000, to begin in the spring of 1983. In 1983 the rear was extended, doubling the building's original size.
Reading on the places and people in this storyline
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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, April 5, 1991: interview L-0064-7, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Seventh of nine Southern Oral History Program interviews with Daniel H. Pollitt, a professor at the UNC School of Law. Recorded April 5, 1991, by Ann McColl, this session of just under an hour is devoted to the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 act of the General Assembly that barred Communists and certain other speakers from state campuses, and to the fight over it at Chapel Hill in the mid-1960s, in which Pollitt took part. Published online in 2008 in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, December 13, 1990: interview L-0064-3, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Third session of the nine-part Pollitt series, recorded December 13, 1990, by Ann McColl, an hour and a quarter long. Daniel H. Pollitt, who joined the UNC law faculty in 1957, picks up the portrait of his colleagues begun in the previous interview: who they were, what they did in the classroom and beyond it, and how the school changed as Black students and women entered it. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 15, 1991: interview L-0064-4, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Race, sports and student protest at UNC are the subjects of this fourth interview with law professor Daniel H. Pollitt, recorded February 15, 1991, by Ann McColl for the Southern Oral History Program. Pollitt discusses the integration of Carolina athletics, including basketball player Charlie Scott, the university's first Black scholarship athlete, the discrimination Black athletes met, student activism from the late 1950s through the 1960s, and the Campus Y. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, November 28, 1990: interview L-0064-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Second interview in the Pollitt series, recorded November 28, 1990, by Ann McColl, and the shortest at about 35 minutes. Daniel H. Pollitt explains how he came to join the UNC law faculty in 1957. Before that he had declined a loyalty oath demanded by another university, and the interview covers that episode and his move to Chapel Hill. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library as part of the Southern Oral History Program collection in Documenting the American South.
Three little children of long ago, 1901.
Pace, Fannie Phillips · 1901
A thirty two page account written in 1901 by Fannie Phillips Pace under the title 'Three little children of long ago', part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1759. A note records that the original was in private hands in 1950. Topics include the Phillips family of Chapel Hill, including James, Charles and Samuel Phillips and Cornelia Phillips Spencer, and on children's social life in the town.
David Matthew Thompson papers, 1863-1938
Thompson, David Matthew, 1844-1925 · 1863
Papers of David Matthew Thompson (1844-1925) covering 1863 to 1938, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3957-z. Topics range from Confederate army life and soldiers' correspondence at one end and early football at the University of North Carolina and Trinity College at the other, with the 'North Carolina University magazine', Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Samuel F. Phillips and university president Edward Kidder Graham named.
John H. Wheeler (1806-1882) Diaries and Papers
Wheeler, John H. · 1854
Diaries and papers of John Hill Wheeler of Hertford County, historian, legislator, state treasurer from 1843 to 1845 and minister to Nicaragua from 1854 to 1857. The diaries, a broken run from 1854 to 1882, follow his social and political life in Washington, D.C. University commencements at Chapel Hill and his work on North Carolina history also come up. State Archives of North Carolina, MfP.51.
Phillips Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
R. W. Foister, Chapel Hill, N.C
Phillips Hall, the university's engineering laboratories, on an undated postcard published by R. W. Foister of Chapel Hill. The caption explains the name: four generations of the Phillips family taught at the University of North Carolina, among them James, Charles and Samuel Field Phillips.
David L. Swain papers, 1807-1877 (bulk 1833-1868)
Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868 · 1807
David L. Swain, 1801 to 1868, served as governor of North Carolina and then as president of the university at Chapel Hill. His papers span 1807 to 1877 with the bulk from 1833 to 1868. Subjects include Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Elisha Mitchell, W. W. Holden and Thomas Ruffin, and cover state politics, railroads, and records of enslaved people. Microfilm reels were made in 1949 and 1974.
David L. Swain (1801-1868) Papers
Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868 · 1763
Papers of David L. Swain, 1763 to 1895. A Buncombe County lawyer and legislator, Swain was governor from 1832 to 1835, president of the university at Chapel Hill from 1835 to 1867 and a founder of the North Carolina Historical Society. Letters come from business partners D. L. Barringer and Nicholas W. Woodfin and from relatives in Georgia, Texas and the navy. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.84.
Wider background: Buildings & Preservation · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
The Pelican Guide to Hillsborough, Historic Orange County, North Carolina
Dula, Lucile Noell · 1989
Lucile Noell Dula's guidebook to Hillsborough and its historic buildings, published by Pelican in 1989. It pairs a tour of the town with notes on its history, in 128 illustrated pages with a bibliography. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.
Horace Williams
Winston, Sr., Robert Watson · 1942 · The University of North Carolina press
Robert Watson Winston's biography of Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940), who taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina for half a century, subtitled gadfly of Chapel Hill. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1942, 309 pages with frontispiece and portraits; this copy is autographed. Topics include educators in Chapel Hill and the university's history.
Reviewed in Social Forces (1943).
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.
Francis Preston Venable of the University of North Carolina
Bursey, Maurice M. · 1989 · Chapel Hill Historical Society
Maurice M. Bursey's biography of Francis Preston Venable (1856 to 1934), chemist and president of the University of North Carolina, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1989. It also covers the history of the university's chemistry department. Illustrated, 111 pages, with bibliographies.
Reviewed in Isis (1992).
Carrboro, N.C
Brown, Claudia Roberts · 1983
Architectural and historical inventory of Carrboro by Claudia Roberts Brown, published in 1983 by the Carrboro Appearance Commission and the town. The 48-page survey, with illustrations and maps, documents the town's historic buildings and their conservation.
The Campus at Chapel Hill
Allcott, John V. · 1986 · Chapel Hill Historical Society
John V. Allcott's history of the architecture of the University of North Carolina campus across two centuries, from the first buildings of the 1790s to the 1980s, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1986. A 108-page illustrated survey with a bibliography. Allcott taught art history at the university.
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The Campus at Chapel Hill: 225 Years of Architecture
Allcott, John V.; Bauer, JJ · 2019 · Chapel Hill Historical Society
A history of the buildings on the University of North Carolina campus by John V. Allcott and JJ Bauer, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 2019. It follows campus construction from the 1790s forward: the plans behind each building campaign, the architects, and the university figures who pushed projects through. 132 pages with photographs, maps and plans.
Historic Coker Hills
Ridky-Blackburn, Jill · 2016
Jill Ridky-Blackburn's history of Coker Hills, a neighborhood in Chapel Hill, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 2016. Chapters describe the land before the subdivision, the Coker who gave it its name, how the neighborhood began, the architects, builders and houses that shaped it, its legacy, memories of growing up there and the residents' later advocacy. Subjects include historic buildings in Chapel Hill. 242 pages with illustrations, portraits and a map.
Well worth a shindy : the architectural and philosophical history of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Madry, Sarah Brandes · 2003 · iUniverse
Sarah Brandes Madry's history of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, treating both its architecture and the ideas attached to it. It takes in drinking fountains and water use in Chapel Hill and the university's history, with a chapter on Edwin Anderson Alderman, the president under whom the well took its present form in 1897, and one on water at the university. Published by iUniverse in 2003, 399 pages with illustrations.
History of the Town of Hillsborough, 1754-1966
Lloyd, Allen Alexander · 1966
Allen Alexander Lloyd's history of Hillsborough from the town's founding in 1754 to 1966, published by the author in Hillsborough in 1966. 306 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits, dedicated to the best interest of our town. Topics include Hillsborough's history and biography, its historic buildings and Orange County history.
Hidden History of Chapel Hill
Burns, Brian · 2023 · The History Press
Brian Burns's collection of lesser-known episodes from Chapel Hill's past, published by The History Press of Charleston, South Carolina, in 2023. Topics include the town's history, its buildings and structures, and the history of civil rights in Chapel Hill. 158 pages with illustrations and portraits.
An address on the history of the buildings of the University of North Carolina
Battle, Kemp P. · 2005
Kemp P. Battle's University Day address of 1883, delivered as president of the University of North Carolina on the day marking the laying of the Old East cornerstone. Battle goes building by building through the Chapel Hill campus, telling how each was named and why it stands where it does. Fifteen pages. Electronic edition issued 2005 by the UNC University Library for Documenting the American South.
