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Old East

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
County of Orange.
National Register Number: 66000596
 Resource type: Building.
Property type: Educational facility - related. The threat level was Satisfactory in
2002.
Congressional District: NC-4 Certified Local Government: YES

Statement of Significance (as of designation - December 21, 1965):
The first building constructed (1795) on the campus of the first state university in the U.S. to open its doors, the University of North Carolina, which was chartered in 1789.


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