Old Well

Early UNC students and faculty relied on wells and nearby springs and creeks for water. The Old Well is probably one of the original wells dug in the 1790s. Located near Old East, the well was at the center of the small campus following the construction of South Building and Old West. Photos from th...

Dining

Campus dining halls have been a part of campus life —and students have complained about them —since the earliest days of the university. The second building built on campus, after Old East, was Steward's Hall, which opened in 1795. From the beginning students were unhappy with the fo...

Libraries

The university began building a library before the first brick was laid for the campus. The first book, a copy of sermons distributed by the U.S. Congress to each of the states, was given to the newly established university in 1792 and placed in a school in New Bern until suitable facilities could b...

Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center

Located near the Friday Center and Finley Golf Course, the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center opened in 1992 to serve as a home for the UNC—Chapel Hill men's and women's tennis teams. It is named for Caesar Cone II, a tennis player at Carolina in the 1920s and son of a prominent textile indus...