Fraternal

View north, circa 1925 (via UNC) View north east (via UNC Postcard collection) Circa 1960 (via HSANC) Delta Kappa Epsilon (D.K.E.), Beta Chapter was the first fraternity founded at the University of North Carolina on April 5, 1851. The early chapter meetings were held in the house of John W. Carr. Due to the Civil War, the chapter was dissolved in...

The house appears to be in the Federal style, which should mean it was built before circa 1835. In various newspaper articles, it is described as "believed to be built between 1870 and 1875," built circa 1827, and "a one-time log cabin covered over in clapboard in the early 1900s to look more modern." The property lot was part of original town lot...

The Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company obtained the property from C. L. and Mary M. Lindsay in July 1919. At the time, the property had several wooden commercial structures but they burned in 1925. This building was built in 1927. Its initial occupants were the Carolina Smoke Shop, a stationery store, The Tar Heel Barber Shop, Lacock's shoe...

Built circa 1879 for/by UNC professor Ralph Henry Graves, Jr., on property purchased from W. G. and Mary N. Bowers.[1] Graves died in July 1889; in October 1898 his widow, Julia Charlotte (Hooper) Graves, sold the property to UNC professor Walter Dallam Toy,[2] who used his house as a boarding house of sorts for unmarried fellow professors, and was...

This structure was built as a Methodist parsonage circa 1924 on the site of John W. Carr's old house. The structure was moved to the north of the lot in 1935 to make way for a Pure Oil service station [1]. In February 1939 the house and property was sold to Marguerite Judson [2]. Judson sold it to Carl Smith in 1946 [3]. He rented the structure to...

Pi Kappa Phi house, View north, 1917 (via UNC's Yackety Yack) 1915 Sanborn Map excerpt (dwelling at #99) Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers reading on the porch (Thomas Wolfe at center); view east, 1920 (via UNC) Built as a dwelling sometime between 1911 and 1915 on the site of an earlier dwelling (known as the "bat house" because of bats that lived...

View west, circa 1910 (via UNC Postcard collection) View west, circa 1918 (via UNC Yackety Yack) Kappa Alpha (K.A.), Epsilon Chapter was established at the University of North Carolina in 1881. This "frat hall" was built circa 1900.

View west, 1918 (via UNC's Yackety Yack) Building is at center-right of photo; view south, 1920s (via UNC) 1911 Sanborn map excerpt 1903 Zeta Psi fraternity photo (via UNC's Yackety Yack) Zeta Psi (Z.P.), Epsilon Chapter was established at the University of North Carolina in 1858. This "frat hall" was built circa 1900. The building was used by the...

1916 photo excerpt The North Carolina chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity was established at the University of North Carolina in November 1914. This structure was built circa 1900 as the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat hall. Pi Kappa Phi moved into the building in December 1918/January 1919. It was destroyed/burned in the January 8, 1919 fire on...