Bricks

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries all of the walkways on campus were covered in gravel (or, to be more precise, Chapel Hill grit). In the mid-1940s, inspired by the brick walkways at Colonial Williamsburg, the university announced a plan to create Williamsburg-style brick walks...

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...

Argyle

In 1993 UNC—Chapel Hill basketball coach Dean Smith called on fashion designer Alexander Julian to help redesign the team's uniforms —Smith had liked what Julian did with the Charlotte Hornets uniforms. Julian came up with a variety of different design possibilities. Uncertain which ...

New West

New West was built in the late 1850s as a dorm to house the expanding population of students. It was designed by architect William Percival to match New East, except that it is one story shorter. In what was an innovation at the time, the building did not include fireplaces in each room. Instead, th...