Roughly bounded by W. Franklin, S. Columbia, and Pittsboro Sts., Brookside and Dogwood Drs., and the E end of McCauley St. and W. Patterson Pl., Chapel Hill, North Carolina. County/parish: Orange.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 09, 2019. NRIS 98001528.
65 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures.
The West Chapel Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The district comprises several small neighborhoods and is roughly bounded by West Cameron Avenue, Malette Street, Ransom Street, Pittsboro Street, University Drive and the Westwood Subdivision. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and was enlarged in 2019. The district encompasses an upper-middle class residential neighborhood that developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The growth of the district is related to the development of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the town of Chapel Hill.
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