Telephone Exchange

This property was purchased in September 1941 by John D. Morris for the Morris Telephone Company. It was later sold to the Morris Telephone Company (as a corporation) in May 1951 by Morris' heirs. The original, one-story, fauxlonial section of the structure was built in 1947. 07.02.2016 (S. Kueber) (Below in italics is from the National Register...

The original wood structure that stood here (built sometime after 1900) burned in May 1928. It was at the time occupied by H.S. Pendergraft Motor Company (first a Dodge dealership and then a Chevrolet dealership) and service station . Sometime between 1928 and 1933, a small brick building was built on the site; it housed Squires Grocery Store and...

View north east, circa 1925 (via UNC) 1925 Sanborn map excerpt This property was once the site of the Chapel Hill Telephone Company exchange building. In 1925, UNC purchased the Chapel Hill Telephone Company and upgraded the outdated system as soon as funds allowed (to include moving the exchange to a new building on Rosemary Street) in 1927. In...

Built in 1927 for UNC/Chapel Hill's telephone exchange (replacing an earlier building to the south west on Henderson Street), it was expanded in 1958. Both the construction and the expansion were due to the need for more modern switching equipment as telephone ownership and usage grew in Chapel Hill. View north west, 1958 (image via UNC) In 1925...

This structure was built in 1955, and Belk-Legget-Horton department store opened at this location. Left side of structure, view north, 1970s (via Chapel Hill Historical Society) Right side of structure, view north, 1970s (via Chapel Hill Historical Society) 1957 ad In 1978, Southern Bell Telephone Company moved into the building (Belk's moved to...

One of William Courtney's houses that was much later used as Hillsborough's first telephone exchange in the early-to-mid-20th century.