People & Places

Work-Davidson House

214 Hillcrest Cir. / Work-Davidson House

Designed by architects Robert Burns, Brian Shawcroft, and Charles Kahn for UNC chemist Robert W. Work and his wife, Anna. Built in 1961-1962 by Triangle Home Builders (maybe?). Shawcroft won an Award of Merit from The American Institute of Architects (in cooperation with House & Home and Life) in 1961, and Kahn won an AIANC Design Merit Award for...

West Hillsborough Graded School (first)

"West Hillsborough School - Early 1900s" (from History of the Town of Hillsborough 1754-1966) Built circa 1900 for use as a school for the children of West Hillsborough and its mill villages. In late 1918, when the "Spanish flu" epidemic spread to the Eno and Bellevue mill districts, the mill officials opened a "diet kitchen" at the school, and it...

West End Graded School (second)

The primary graded school for West Hillsborough from the 1930s to the 1960s

106 Mallette St. / Roy Rogers Roast Beef / Biscuit Towne / Arby's / Chapel Hill Herald Building

Built as a Roy Rogers' Roast Beef fast-food restaurant circa 1968. Was a Biscuit Towne, USA restaurant from 1981 to 1983. Was an Arby's Restaurant from 1983 to 1988. Then was the offices for the Chapel Hill Herald newspaper from 1989 to 1999. After 1999, it was used by various businesses until it was sold and demolished in 2013. It is now...yes...

View west, 1956

106 MALLETTE ST.

Said to have been built in 1904, it was remodeled or "modernized" in 1956. It was demolished (or perhaps moved?) to make way for a Roy Rogers' Roast Beef fast-food restaurant circa 1968, after the Fox family sold the property. It is now a beautiful parking lot. View west, 1956 Original floorplan Post-remodel floorplan, 1956 1915 Sanborn map excerpt...

137 E. Franklin St. / Bank Of Chapel Hill / NCNB Building

Exterior, 1921 (UNC Yackety Yack) This original building was built in 1898 for the Bank of Chapel Hill. Circa 1925, People's Bank merged with the Bank of Chapel Hill. At right in photo, circa 1947 (photo by Bayard Wootten, via UNC) View north west, circa 1960 (via Chapel Hill Historical Society) View north, 1965 1968 Interior, 1959 (UNC Yackety...

163 E. Franklin St.

The building was built in late 1929 or early 1930 on the location of an earlier commercial structure that was destroyed in a fire. The Cobb family owned this building for many decades (maybe still do?). The building was first occupied by University Cafeteria, soon renamed the Friendly Cafeteria, then within a few years (by 1933) it was renamed the...

117 W. King St.

"Dr. Durham's Store" likely dated from the 1880s-1890s (Photo from History of the Town of Hillsborough) "Dr. Durham's Store" interior (Photo from History of the Town of Hillsborough) It was torn down in the 1950s and replaced with a two-story masonry structure on a similar footprint. 07.31.2016 (S. Kueber) (Below in italics is from the National...

109 E. King St.

07.02.2016 (S. Kueber) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) This one-story, parapet-roofed commercial building is three bays wide with a central entrance flanked by forty-eight-light display windows. The brick building is laid in a running bond and has terra cotta coping at the parapet...

1721 E. Franklin St. / WCHL Building (former)

Built in 1962 as the home of WCHL radio 1360AM. It was originally a 1,000-watt station. View north, 1965 (via CHHS Hill Life) January 23, 1963 ad (CHW) View east, April 1968 (DTH) Roland and Elizabeth McClamroch had purchased the property in April 1962 and sold it (the McClamroch estate/LLC did) in 2012. WCHL moved out of the building circa 1997...