Chapel Hill - West Chapel Hill

View north east, April 1968

300 W. CAMERON AVE. / EUBANKS HOUSE

This property was purchased by Clyde Eubanks in 1901, and it's likely that there was already a house on the property. He and his wife, Stella, lived here until their deaths, she in 1963 (having been moved to Hillcrest Nursing Home in Durham) and he in 1965. The property was inherited by their son, Paul, but he died intestate in 1967 and the...

View north, April 2024 (via Google Streetview)

208 PUREFOY RD.

Built 1947 on Lots 69 and 70 of property subdivided in 1924. Site of the September 23, 1961 suicide of Harry Paxton Owen (UNC Class of 1961), who worked as a night clerk at the Carolina Inn. View north, April 2024 (via Google Streetview) Via the News of Orange REFERENCES: Orange County deed book 144, page 239; deed book 145, page 380; deed book 185...

Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World - 276 Pride of Orange

101 S. Merritt Mill Rd. / Elks Lodge

Circa 2005, view east (photo by M. Ruth Little, courtesy the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill) The property was first purchased by Elks Lodge members in June 1924. There may have been an earlier, wood building than the current structure, which was built in 1954. This was the meeting hall for the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks...

Orange County Training School (first)

The Orange County Training School began in 1913 as Hackney's Educational and Industrial School – which soon became known merely as the Hackney School and colloquially as "Hack's High School" – as a high school serving the local African American community. The school was located west of Merritt Mill Road (then also known as New Mill Road), between...

E.g. Merritt's Esso Service / Merritt's Service Station / Merritt's Exxon / Merritt's Store / Merritt's Store & Grill / Merritt's Grill

Built circa 1939 as an Esso gas and service station and "general store." Its original owners/operators were Eben G. "EG" and Ruby H. Merritt, who purchased the property in March 1939,[1] and moved their business here in January 1941.[2] In 1973, it became an Exxon station.[3] In the mid-late 1970s, it became a place for local musicians and " string...

Christopher Barbee House (site)

Christopher "Old Kit" Barbee (born ca. 1739, died 1832) is best known for his November 1792 donation of 221 acres of land to UNC for part of its campus. This property was originally part of his father, William’s, property, which Wiliam purchased in 1753 as part of a 585 acre grant. [1] Christopher acquired the property in 1779 by purchasing all of...

211 W. Cameron Ave. / North Carolina Christian Conference Church / United Christian Church / United Congregational Christian Church / United Church Of Chapel Hill

The United Congregational Christian Church of Chapel Hill was organized in 1910; its leaders were Rev. W. C. Clements, William E. Lindsay, Daniel S. Long, Thomas W. Strowd, Everette W. Neville, Isaac W. Pritchard, and R. W. Foster [1]. The property was purchased in April 1910, and the building was erected circa 1914 [2]. The rear addition, as an...

412 W. Cameron Ave. / Mason-lloyd-wiley House

From the 1998 NRHP nomination: "An antebellum house of brick construction, which was rare in early Chapel Hill, the structure also incorporates pine pegging and hand-forged nails into its construction. The house also features end chimneys, gable-end returns, nine-over-nine first-story and six-over-six second-story fenestration headed by jack arches...

3819 S. Columbia St. / Watts Grill / Watts Restaurant & Watts Motel

Austin and Jeppie Watts purchased the property (properties, actually) between 1946 and 1951. It was previously known as the S. H. Basnight property. Watts Grill opened in the early 1950s. The motel/motor court was built sometime between 1957 and 1961. View south east View south east, 1961 August 1957 (CHW) It was renamed/reopened as Watts...

Graves House (site)

The site of the Graves House, now where the Carolina Inn is.