Chapel Hill Historic District is a national

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located at

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Orange County, North Carolina Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough. Orange County is included in the Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Metrop ...

. The district encompasses 46 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects on the central campus of the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

and surrounding residential sections of Chapel Hill. The district's buildings date from 1795 to the early-20th century and include notable examples of

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and

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architecture. Located in the district and separately listed are the Chapel of the Cross,

Old East Old EastItalic text'' is a residence hall located at the north part of campus in University of North Carolina at Chapel HillWhen it was built in 1793,by Slave Laborit became the first state university building in the United States. The Wren Buil ...

, building and

Playmakers Theatre The Playmakers Theatre, originally Smith Hall, is a historic academic building on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Built in 1850, it was designated a National Historic Landmark for its architecture, as an important ex ...

. Other notable contributing resources are the Davie Poplar, Old West (1822), South Building (1798), the Old Well, Person Hall (1797), Gerrard Hall (1822), New East (c. 1860), New West, the Joseph Caldwell Monument (1858), the Y.M.C.A. Building, Battle-Vance-Pettigre11 Dormitory (1913), Horace Williams House (1854), the Phillips Law Office, the Phillips House (1856), the Old Methodist Church (1853), Senlac (1843, 1876), Hippol Castle (1920s), and Battle Park. It was listed on the

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in 1971, and enlarged in 2015.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina {{OrangeCountyNC-NRHP-stub