Historic Chapel Hill
A project by Digital History Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillHistoric Chapel Hill is a web platform for sharing documentation, images, and stories about local structures and cultural landscapes. The project is funded by a grant from the Kelly-Webb Trust, established by local architect Jim Webb. Historic Chapel Hill launched in 2021, making available geo-located versions of property descriptions and photographs from professional historic resource surveys of the town’s local historic districts and property information from Orange County.
Recent Stories
311 Pritchard Avenue
House
311 Pritchard Avenue
1920s
The five houses that make up the western side of the 300 block of Pritchard Avenue, in the white section of Northside east of Church Street, are the most intact group of 1920s houses in the neighborhood. All of…
307 Pritchard Avenue
House
307 Pritchard Avenue
1920s
The five houses that make up the western side of the 300 block of Pritchard Avenue, in the white section of Northside east of Church Street, are the most intact group of 1920s houses in the neighborhood. 307…
305 Pritchard Avenue
House
305 Pritchard Avenue
1920s
The five houses that make up the western side of the 300 block of Pritchard Avenue, in the white section of Northside east of Church Street, are the most intact group of 1920s houses in the neighborhood. 305…
303 Pritchard Avenue
House
303 Pritchard Avenue
1920s
The five houses that make up the western side of the 300 block of Pritchard Avenue, in the white section of Northside east of Church Street, are the most intact group of 1920s houses in the neighborhood. All of…
205 North Columbia Street
205 North Columbia Street
1925-32
One story frame Bungalow with side-gabled roof, interior chimneys and gabled dormer.
SOURCE: M. Ruth Little, “Northside Neighborhood” (Chapel Hill, NC, 1992), 59.
308 Lindsay Street
308 Lindsay Street
1920
308 Lindsay Street is an intact side-gable bungalow with decorative clipped gables, a wide shed dormer window, nine-over-one sash windows, and a shed porch with brick and frame posts. Luther Hargrave, a carpenter,…
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513 East Franklin Street
PRESBYTERIAN MANSE
c. 1840
One of the earliest houses on this end of Franklin Street, the two-story, hip-roofed, house is three bays wide and single-pile with a full-width, shed-roofed rear wing. The house has a stone foundation, plain…
711 East Franklin Street
GORGON'S HEAD LODGE
c. 1920
Constructed as a lodge for the Gorgon’s Head Society, this one-story, hip-roofed, Craftsman-style structure is five bays wide and thee bays deep. The building is covered with wood shingles and has paired,…
501 East Franklin Street
WIDOW PUCKETT HOUSE
c. 1798, c. 1920, 1960s
The Widow Puckett House is among the oldest houses standing in Chapel Hill, though it is uncertain if it predates the Hooper-Kyser House across the street. The two-story, side-gabled, Federal-style house…