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NPS FORM 10-900-A OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 6 & 7 Page 1 Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation Orange County, North Carolina Section 6: Function or Use Historic Functions (cont.): Recreation and Culture: theater Landscape: garden Current Functions (cont.): Religion: religious facility Landscape: garden Section 7: Description Architectural Classification (cont.): Shingle Style Queen Anne Other: Period Cottage Georgian Revival Classical Revival Greek Revival Neoclassical Revival Materials (cont.): Foundation: Stone Foundation: Concrete Walls: Wood: Shake Walls: Aluminum Walls: Synthetics: Vinyl Walls: Asbestos Walls: Wood: Log Roof: Wood shingle Roof: Metal Roof: Stone: Slate NPS FORM 10-900-A OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 2 Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation Orange County, North Carolina Narrative Description: When the Chapel Hill Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, it included the oldest, central section of the University of North Carolina campus, a significant portion of the residential area along East Franklin and East Rosemary streets to the north of the campus that was developed concurrent with the university, and the resources in and around Battle Park on the east side of the campus. The nomination included only a partial inventory list (49 properties were listed individually in the inventory, though 114 primary resources exist within the boundary) and a period of significance from 1793, the beginning of construction at the University of North Carolina, to an unspecified ending date in the early twentieth century with the 1920s or 1930s implied; the historical narrative ends in the early 1930s, though the 1949 Morehead Planetarium on the campus was specifically called out as an important resource. This document provides additional documentation for the Chapel Hill Historic District nomination, including a complete inventory for the district with descriptions and contributing status given for all resources within the original district boundary. It also extends the period of significance for the Chapel Hill Historic District to 1964 with a discussion of the continued educational and architectural significance of the original district to the mid-1960s. Thus, the period of significance established by this additional documentation is c. 1793 to 1964. The expansion of the University of North Carolina facilities and programs in the twentieth century, especially in the 1920s and the post-World War II era, is indicative of its continued educational significance. Further, the development of the residential area of the original district, intricately tied to the growth of the university during the expanded period of significance, is an architecturally significant collection of buildings, including examples of both vernacular and nationally popular architectural styles. The Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase expands the boundary of the Chapel Hill Historic District to include three adjacent areas: 1) the commercial corridor along East Franklin Street, a portion of which was included in the original district boundary, 2) residential development north of the district, including two early twentieth-century subdivisions, and 3) residential development east of the district. These areas were likely excluded from the original boundary because the buildings are predominantly from the twentieth century, many of them less than fifty years old when the district was created, and are simpler in form and detail. However, collectively they illustrate the continued residential development of the area through the mid-twentieth century and the historic commercial core of the town. While the university experienced significant growth in the twentieth century, the district was not expanded to the south, to include additional portions of the University of North Carolina campus, at the request of university officials. The Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase section of this document includes a full inventory of the 197 primary resources, as well as descriptions of secondary resources and a characterization of the streets included in the expansion area. The growth of Chapel Hill in the early twentieth century followed NPS FORM 10-900-A OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 3 Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation Orange County, North Carolina national trends with buildings constructed in the popular Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Period Cottage, and Ranch styles. Further, Cobb Terrace and Tenney Circle, at the northwest and northeast corners of the Boundary Increase, respectively, employ designs standards for residential developments that had become typical by the early twentieth century. Thus, the period of significance for the Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase is c. 1905 to 1964 and this document provides context for the early and mid- twentieth-century architecture and community planning in the expansion areas. INVENTORY LIST The inventory list of the Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation is divided into two sections. The first section updates and expands the inventory presented in the 1971 Chapel Hill Historic District. The original nomination included a partial inventory with names, dates, and descriptions of significant structures, each of which were assigned a number that has been noted in parenthesis in the updated inventory list. The updated inventory list includes a brief summary of moved or demolished resources within the district boundary, full descriptions of all resources, and assigns a contributing or non-contributing status to each resource. Property descriptions are arranged alphabetically by street name, then ascending numerically by house number along those streets. Buildings on the University of North Carolina campus have been separated from the other resources and have been listed first, though also arranged alphabetically by street name. Additional information regarding the buildings on the University of North Carolina campus was derived from the 2003 “University of North Carolina Historic Preservation Survey” conducted by the Campus Historic Preservation Manager and Facilities Planning Department. Information about the monuments and sites on campus was taken from the University of North Carolina Library website. Properties individually listed in the National Register or designated as a National Historic Landmark are identified in the individual entries. The second section of the inventory list provides a complete inventory for the resources located within the Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase. It begins with a description of the overall character of the expansion area and includes full descriptions of all resources and assigns a contributing or non- contributing status to each resource. The inventory is arranged alphabetically by street name, then ascending numerically by house number along those streets. For both sections of the inventory, building names and construction dates were derived from Sanborn maps, county tax records, and architectural analysis. Proper names are given to buildings only when the respective survey file or the below-listed sources cite the initial occupant or a long-term occupant within the period of significance. Commercial buildings are typically not named, unless a name appears on the building itself, because their occupants have changed frequently. Because no city directories exist for Chapel Hill before the 1950s, buildings that have not been previously researched have not been assigned names in this inventory. M. Ruth Little’s The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill North Carolina, 1795-1975 [Little] and the “Triangle Modernist Houses” website [TMH] provided additional NPS FORM 10-900-A OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 4 Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation Orange County, North Carolina information for the inventory. Dates and building histories for properties on Hillsborough Street were taken from a 2006 North Carolina Study List application for a proposed expansion of the district. Local historian Bernard Lee Bryant’s “Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina at 5-Year Intervals, 1793-1998” [Bryant], did not list buildings by address until 1928, though his research was applied to residences in the 200-600 blocks of Franklin Street. Posted signs indicating the name and age of a house or building in the district are also noted in the inventory. Information not otherwise cited in the entries can be found in the survey files held by the North Carolina Historic Preservation Office. Properties in both sections of the inventory are coded as C (contributing) or NC (non-contributing due to age or alterations) based on their date of construction and level of historic integrity. All contributing resources were constructed during