Love House and Hutchins Forum

Located at 410 East Franklin Street next to the President's House, this has been the home of the Center for the Study of the American South since 2007. The house was built in 1887 by university mathematics professor James Lee Love, who lived there with his wife, Julia Spencer Love, and her mothe...

Old East

Old East is the first building at the university and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the first building on a public university campus in the United States. The original structure, located just to the east of the Old Well, was designed to be the north wing of a larger buildin...

Lux Libertas

The university's motto is Lux Libertas, Latin for "light and liberty." It was adopted in 1897 at the same time as the new school seal, which included a crest with the words on it. In their minutes approving the new seal, the UNC Board of Trustees noted that the seal (and presumably the m...

Confederate Monument (Silent S

In 1908 the board of trustees approved a request from the North Carolina division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) to build a Confederate monument on campus. University president Francis Venable was actively involved in planning and fund-raising for the monument and committed univers...