“Bingham Hall, 1930-1969: Scan 2.”
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1928, May - Bingham Hall Construction Begins
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In May construction begins on Bingham Hall. The faculty and classes of the English department were housed there from 1952 until the completion of Greenlaw Hall in 1970.
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In May construction begins on Bingham Hall. The building was designed by A.C. Nash, who also designed Wilson Library, the Carolina Inn, Venable Hall, and Spencer Dormitory. The faculty and classes of the English department were housed there from 1952 until the completion of Greenlaw Hall in 1970. Prior to moving to Bingham Hall, the Department of English had occupied the second floor of Murphey Hall since 1922. Bingham Hall is named for Robert Bingham (1838-1927), a UNC graduate in 1857 who fought in the Civil War and served as headmaster of the Bingham School in Mebane. A white supremacist, he wrote and spoke in favor of racial purity and against Black American suffrage. Bingham Hall currently houses the Department of Communication and awaits renovation.
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Allcott, John V. The Campus at Chapel Hill: Two Hundred Years of Architecture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1986. 71.
Steelman, Bennett L. “Bingham, Robert.” The Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell. U of North Carolina P, 1979. Rpt. in NCPedia, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/bingham-robert.
MacMillan, Dougald. English at Chapel Hill: 1795-1969. Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970. 39. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001260393&view=1up&seq=7.
