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Architectural Highlights of Carolina's Historic Campus

Descriptions of buildings on historic McCorkle and Polk Places dating from Old East (1793), the first building erected on a public university campus, to the designs of Alexander Jackson Davis and the Beaux-Arts Wilson Library of 1929.

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  1. Old East, ca. 1797. Pen and ink sketch by John Pettigrew
  2. Gerrard Hall, 1822-1837
  3. Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892)
  4. Old West, 1823, remodeling completed in 1848
  5. Playmakers Theatre (formerly SmithHall), 1851
  6. One of the distinctive capitals on the columns of Playmakers Theatre (now Smith Hall)
  7. New East and New West, 1861
  8. Memorial Hall, 1885 version on the left and 1930 version on the right
  9. The Temple of Love, Versailles, 1775, left and the Old Well, 1897, right
  10. The YMCA Building, first opened in 1907, renovation completedin 2007
  11. Polk Place’s new classroom buildings of the 1920s, designed by William Kendall: Saunders, left, Manning, center, and Murphey, right
  12. Manning Hall, 1923
  13. South Building, 1814 and remodeled in 1927
  14. Wilson Library, completed 1929
  15. Main Reading Room, Wilson Library
  16. William C. Coker (1872-1953)
  17. Carolina Inn, 1924
  18. Kenan Stadium, 1927
  19. Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, 1931

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