The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1795-1975

by M. Ruth Little

This lavishly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive view of a unique community that is called by some the "southern part of heaven." Ruth Little tells the story of Chapel Hill's "town" and "gown" from the earliest architecture of the town and campus to the imposing public and university structures of the early twentieth century and the modernist subdivisions built from the late 1950s through the 1970s.

The culmination of years of architectural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807830720
• ISBN13: 9780807830727
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Preservation Society of Chapel Hill
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.3"