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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Records, #2141-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, N.C., January 1983. Additional material received from Joseph B. Philips, June 2005 (Acc. 100107).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Revised by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2010; Rebecca Stubbs and Laura Smith, June 2023

Updated: May 2019

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
• Brotherhoods--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Church history.
• Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Church architecture--North Carolina.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History.

Chapel of the Cross is an Episcopal Parish in Chapel Hill, N.C. The congregation was formed in 1842 and a church was built which was consecrated in October 1848. This first church was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887), a builder and architect of Philadelphia, Pa. A new church and an enlargement of the parish house was designed and built by Hobart Brown Upjohn (1876-1949) of New York, N.Y., which was consecrated in 1925. Another parish house wing was added, 1957-1958, by the firm of S. Porter Graves Jr. and Walter Dallam Toy Jr. of Charlotte, N.C.

The collection includes a minute book, 1895-1897, of the meetings of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at the Chapel of the Cross and blueprints and other materials, 1913-1979, concerning construction and renovation of building and grounds of the church. Seventy-six of the items are blueprints from the New York office of the architect Hobart Upjohn, created for the building, 1923-1925, of the gothic stone church given by Mr. William A. Erwin in memory of Dr. Rainey Holt. The Upjohn sheets were numbered between 2 and 239, with unnumbered but related sheets designated in 1982 as A-M and J-M. Another nineteen items came from subcontracts and related contracts, 1923-1925, units 6-10.

The other maps and plans include items related to building, landscaping, repair, revision, and renovation. Also included are a few items acquired for the use, apparently, of church committees charged with long-range planning and church extension; and for other uses as indicated on the unit list. Thirty-one sheets dated earlier than 1923-1925 are included in units 1-4. Fifty-three sheets dated later than the Upjohn building are included in units 11-22.

Oversize Paper Folders (OPF-2141/1-2, XOPF-2141/1-13)