<p>The Rife House was a historic house at 1515 South Eighth Street in Rogers, Arkansas. It was a modest single-story house, built out of concrete blocks cast to resemble rusticated stone. It had a gable-on-hip roof, with a shed-roof extension to the rear, and a full-width porch across the front. The porch was supported by four fluted columns fashioned out of concrete blocks. Built c. 1920, this was a local example of a vernacular house built using a once-popular construction material.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, but has since been destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The Rocky Branch School is a historic school building in rural eastern Benton County, Arkansas. It is located at the northern terminus of Arkansas Highway 303, where it joins with County Roads 85 and 99 , and stands opposite the Rocky Branch Church. It is a one-room schoolhouse, with two doors facing east. The school was built c. 1914 in the community of La Rue, and was moved to its present site c. 1960 when that community was inundated by the creation of nearby Beaver Lake. It is a well-preserved example of a country district schoolhouse, with little alteration since its construction.</p><br>
<p>It was described as a "classic one-room school building."</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Former City Hall of Rogers, Arkansas is located at 202 West Elm Street. It is a three-story brick Colonial Revival building, designed by architect A. O. Clark and built in 1929. The building was used by the city for municipal offices and as a fire station until the 1990s. It is now being converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 (as "Rogers City Hall").</p><br>
<p>J. R. Routt House  is an historic dwelling of local significance in Chappell Hill, Texas, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was originally built in the 1850s by Marcus P. Munyan (who constructed various buildings in the area) as a four-room house. In 1866 it was sold to J. N. Thompsons, who sold it to J. R. Routt in 1898. Routt made significant changes to the plot, contracting J. W. Heartfield to move the cottage to the rear of the plot and build it in to a much larger Late Victorian house. The house has had various modifications since and has been kept in good repair. The current plot is believed to be worthy of archaeological investigation to find out more about the original outbuildings. It is also thought that there may have been a cistern associated with the dwelling historically. The home was inherited by Routt&#39;s daughter Thelma Crockett in 1962.</p><br>
<p>Carrboro Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Carrboro, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of Carrboro. The districts buildings date from about 1910 to the mid-1920s and are primarily one- and two-story brick commercial buildings. Notable buildings include the "Flatiron Building" , Hearns Grocery , a Bank and Jewelry Store , the Miles Andrews House , Western Auto Store , and the building at 118-120 East Main Street .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Thomas F. Lloyd Historic District is a national historic district located at Carrboro, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings developed as housing for textile mill workers associated with the 1910 Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company. The district&#39;s buildings date between 1910 and 1915 and are primarily one- and two-story frame mill worker dwellings. A notable dwelling is located at 214 Maple Avenue, which was reportedly built by Thomas Lloyd as a "guest house" for the mill.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District is a national historic district located at Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings, 9 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures in the rural crossroads community of Cedar Grove. The district developed from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, and includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Rogers-McDade House, Eno Presbyterian Church , Cedar Grove Methodist Church , Allison-Oliver-Pender Store , and Allen A. Ellis Store .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Chapel Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 46 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects on the central campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and surrounding residential sections of Chapel Hill. The district&#39;s buildings date from 1793 to the early-20th century and include notable examples of Classical Revival and Jacobean Revival architecture. Located in the district and separately listed are the Chapel of the Cross, Old East, building and Playmakers Theatre. Other notable contributing resources are the Davie Poplar, Old West , South Building , the Old Well, Person Hall , Gerrard Hall , New East , New West, the Joseph Caldwell Monument , the Y.M.C.A. Building, Battle-Vance-Pettigre11 Dormitory , Horace Williams House , the Phillips Law Office, the Phillips House , the Old Methodist Church , Senlac , Hippol Castle , and Battle Park.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and enlarged in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District is a national historic district located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 51 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Chapel Hill. The district developed in two periods, 1928-1930 and 1936–1960, and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and International Style architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, with a boundary increase in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Faucett Mill and House, also known as Coach House and Chatwood, is a historic grist mill, home, and national historic district located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The mill was built before 1792, and is a -story, heavy timber frame, weatherboarded building. It is sided alongside a reconstructed mill race and the Eno River. The Faucett House was built about 1808, and is a -story, Federal style frame dwelling, with an original one-story rear wing. The house&#39;s southwest wing was originally a separate dwelling known as the Naile Johnson House. It was added to the Faucett House about 1938. Also on the property are the contributing mill cottage, barn, and a section of the "Great Road."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Holden–Roberts Farm, also known as Rolling Acres Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built in 1873–1874, and is a two-story, frame I-house, with modest Greek Revival style detailing. The house is sheathed in weatherboard, has a gable roof, and features two stately single-shouldered end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing granary , three frame chicken houses , a brick shed-roofed garden house , an equipment shed , and two pole barns . The house was built for Addison Holden, half-brother of North Carolina&#39;s Reconstruction Governor William Woods Holden.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Jackson Farm, also known as Maple Hill, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The Maple Hill dwelling consists of a single pen, hewn log cabin  joined in 1940 by an ell to a two-story, weatherboarded log Federal farmhouse , and a 1 1/2-story, mid-19th century Greek Revival style wing. A frame dining room/kitchen block was added to the cabin in 1946. Also on the property are the contributing barn  and agricultural landscape.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Montrose is a historic estate and national historic district located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1900 and remodeled in 1948. It is a two-story, three-bay, double-pile frame dwelling with a high-hip, slate-covered roof, and flanking one-story wings. It features a Colonial Revival style pedimented entrance pavilion with a swan&#39;s neck pediment. Also on the property are the contributing William Alexander Graham Law Office  with Federal style design elements, garage , kitchen , smokehouse , pump house , tractor shed , animal shelter , barn  and the landscaped gardens .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Rigsbee&#39;s Rock House is a historic home and national historic district located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The house was built in 1929, and is a -story, rectangular, white flint rubble dwelling with a steeply pitched hipped roof in the Tudor Revival style. The house was restored in 1986–1987. Also on the property are the contributing original two car, detached garage, a pump house, and an outdoor swimming pool, each constructed of white flint rock.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Sans Souci is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1813, as two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a gable roof and set on a brick foundation. Later additions included -story flanking wings added in the Federal period and a Greek Revival shed addition built in the mid-19th century across the rear of the main block and the east wing. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen, office, and servant&#39;s quarters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Hazel-Nash House, also known as the Hasell-Nash House, is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1820, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, pedimented central block flanked by a pair of pedimented single-story wings. The front facade features a single-story porch supported by Ionic order columns and a central Palladian window. Its design is probably based on Robert Morris  plate 37 of his Rural Architecture. .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Heartsease is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1770, and consists of a -story, three-bay, central block dating to the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century -story east wing, and two-story pedimented west wing added in the late 19th century. It is topped by a gable roof and features a shed porch whose roof supported by plain Tuscan order posts. It is believed that Heartsease served as the pre-Revolutionary home of Thomas Burke, North Carolina&#39;s third governor and a member of the Constitutional Convention.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Ruffin-Roulhac House, also known as Little Hawfields, is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, United States. It was built about 1820, and is a -story, five-bay, frame dwelling including a two-room addition built about 1830. It is topped by a gable roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a one-bay 20th century replacement porch. The interior has Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian style design elements. It was the home of jurist Thomas Ruffin  from after the end of the American Civil War until his death in 1870.</p><br>
<p>The house has since been converted into town offices for the town of Hillsborough.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Moorefields is a historic plantation home located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1785, and consists of a two-story central block, three bays wide, with flanking one-bay wings in the Federal style. The house features a shed porch with turned wooden posts. It was built by soldier and judge Alfred Moore .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Eagle Lodge is a historic Masonic lodge building located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built in 1823, and two-story, three-bay, square brick building in the Greek Revival style. Its brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. It has a low hipped roof with heavy box cornice and a one-story pedimented porch with Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Lodge was first chartered in 1791 and disbanded in 1799. It was re-started in 1819, and decided in 1820 to build a building. This was designed probably by North Carolina&#39;s state architect William Nichols.</p><br>
<p>It came to serve as the town&#39;s lecture hall, opera house, Civil War hospital, and other functions. It was also known as the King Street Opera House.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed architecturally significant "as an interesting example of the adaptive usage of early Greek Revival motifs in a building constructed specifically as a Masonic lodge."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Nash Law Office is a historic office building located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built in 1801, and is a small one-story, frame building with a gable roof and low brick foundation. It has a brick exterior end chimney and a small one-story wing added in 1865. The building housed the law office of jurist Frederick Nash . Following his death it housed a school and was purchased by the Hillsborough Historical Society in 1970.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Old Orange County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built in 1845, and is a two-story, Greek Revival-style, temple-form brick structure. It replaced Dickerson Chapel as the countys courthouse. The front facade features a Doric order tetrastyle pedimented portico and two-stage clock tower. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. The building served as the seat of Orange Countys government until 1954, when a new building was completed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Lucerne Inn is a historic hotel and restaurant at 2517 Main Road  in Dedham, Maine. Its main house built in 1818 and repeatedly enlarged and renovated, the Lucerne Inn has served travelers for nearly 200 years. In the 1920s it was the centerpiece of an ultimately unsuccessful effort to develop a resort catering to the wealthy on nearby Phillips Lake. The inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lucerne Inn is set on the west side of Route 1A, roughly midway between Bangor and Ellsworth. Its main building is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, six bays wide, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a brick and granite foundation. A porch extends across the east-facing front, supported by paired Tuscan columns. To either side of this main block there are three bay extensions with front-gable roof, that on the left side further extended by an enclosed porch area.</p><br>
<p>One of Dedhams early settlers, Nathan Phillips, established a travelers accommodation near this site in 1810. Under the auspices of his son the property grew to assume its present dimensions, and was known as the "Lake House". In 1925 this property, as well as all of the land surrounding Phillips Lake, was acquired by New York investor Harold M. Saddlemire, who proposed to a major resort development called "Lucerne-in-Maine". The Lake House was moved a short way to its present location and given a then-modern Colonial Revival restyling, with the intent that it would serve as a clubhouse for the facilities. A series of roads and house lots were laid out, the golf club (now the Lucerne-in-Maine Golf Club) was established, and a log lodge was built for the exclusive use of resort members. The resort had the support of a significant portion of the state&#39;s political and business elite. However, mismanagement of its funds, combined with the effects of the Great Depression, spelled the failure of the enterprise.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The inn today offers rooms and suites, and has a dining room with a view overlooking the lake. Other amenities include a swimming pool, indoor and outdoor seating areas, and gazebos.</p><br>
<p>Murphey School is a historic school complex located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The Murphey School was built in 1923, and is a one-story, Spanish Revival style brick building with a hip-on-hip roof covered in pressed metal shingles resembling terra cotta tiles. The front facade features a projecting central hip roof front entrance. Attached to the school is a one-story neoclassical style auditorium addition built in 1936 with a Doric order portico. Also on the property is a contributing -story bungalow style teacherage , well house , and water tower .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Murphey School Auditorium is the current home of Burning Coal Theatre Company.</p><br>
<p>Twelve Oaks, or the J.W. Bass House, is a historic farm estate at 7210 Arkansas Highway 7 South in rural Boone County, Arkansas, south of Harrison. The main house is a dramatic and architecturally eclectic two-story building with a variety of Craftsman, Colonial Revival, and Mission style details. It is a stucco-finished concrete construction, whose roof has exposed rafter tails, and was originally finished in tile, replaced after a 1973 tornado extensively damaged the property. At the time of its construction in 1922 , it was one of the finest plantation houses in the state. It was built by J. W. Bass, a businessman responsible for the construction of a number of Harrison&#39;s finest buildings, who developed a 1,600 acre farm south of the city, with this property as its centerpiece. It was named "Twelve Oaks" after a grove of twelve large oak trees, none of which survived the 1973 tornado.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Valley Springs School is a historic school building at 1 School Street in Valley Springs, Arkansas. Now part of a larger school complex, it is a single-story fieldstone structure with a wide south-facing facade, and a gable-on-hip roof. There are two entrance pavilions, marked by steeply-pitched gable projections. The left entrance is deeply recessed under a rounded archway, while that on the right, although also recessed, has a flat-roofed pavilion sheltering access to it. Fenestration is provided by groups of sash windows arranged symmetrically across the facade. The school was built in 1940 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, and originally served as the community&#39;s high school.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Zinc Swinging Bridge is a pedestrian suspension bridge spanning Sugar Orchard Creek in the small town of Zinc, Arkansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Located adjacent to Washington Street, the bridge is constructed out of triangular concrete piers, metal cables 1.25 in thick, with wooden planking supported by runner borders bolted to the cables. The bridge is 104 ft long, its piers set 60 ft apart. At its highest point, the bridge is about 16 ft above the ground. The bridge is one of a small number of suspension bridges in the state, and one of its most distinctive.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1927 during the local rebuilding effort following the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The bridge was built by miners who were out of work due to the floods, and it replaced an earlier bridge which had been washed out by those floods that year.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 2007 (as "Zinc Swinging Bridge-BO0162", reflecting the inclusion of its state cultural survey identifier).</p><br>
<p>In June 2014, the swinging bridge partially collapsed due to the failure of its mostly shale western pier during repair work that was being done on it due to cracking which had first developed several years prior. Local government and residents endeavored to rebuild it without a grant as they felt that would take too long to be approved, and they needed it in place before heavy spring rainstorms which often render Sugar Orchard Creek impassable. The rebuilt bridge was completed in 2015 and followed the original structural design. The incident did not affect its listing on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, also known as Riverland Farm, is a historic home located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1820, and is a -story, Late Georgian style frame dwelling with a gable roof. It sits on a raised fieldstone foundation and has flanking stone chimneys with brick stacks. It has a rear addition built in the 1940s, and was renovated in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Bellevue Manufacturing Company is a historic textile mill complex located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The main mill was built about 1909, and is a two-story, side-gabled brick building, with a one-story boiler room and engine room wing. It is representative of slow-burn heavy timber construction. A one-story brick weaving room with monitor roof was built parallel to the main mill in 1920. In 1923, the wing was raised to two stories and an addition built to connect to the weaving room forming a U-shaped complex. The center of the "U" was filled in during the 1960s. Also in 1923, a separate two-story cloth building was constructed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>On May 20, 2016, the 34,000 sqfoot weaving room was completely destroyed by a multi-alarm fire, which required mutual aid from seven local fire departments to extinguish.</p><br>
<p>Eno Cotton Mill, also known as the Eno Plant, is a historic cotton mill complex located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The main mill was built in 1896, with expansions in 1904, about 1917, about 1923, and about 1971. The main mill is a two-story, brick building with a shallow gabled roof supported by heavy timber beams and posts. It is representative of slow-burn heavy timber construction and has Italianate style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing weave house and dye shed  and steam stack . Eno Plant closed in 1984 and the buildings house the Hillsborough Business Center incubator.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Capt. John S. Pope Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex located near Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built between 1870 and 1874, and is a two-story, frame I-house with a one-story ell. It sits on a stone pier foundation, has a triple gable roof, and features stone gable end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing well house , washhouse , garage / smokehouse , flower house , two corn cribs , feed barn , tobacco ordering/stripping house , two curing barns , stick shed , five tobacco barns , a spring-fed well , workshop , a small log building , two wood sheds , and the surrounding agricultural landscape.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Arch Jordan House, also known as the manse for Little River Presbyterian Church, is a historic home located near Caldwell, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1875, and is a two-story, single pile, central hall plan, Italianate style frame dwelling. It features a central projecting gable, bracketed eaves, and a columned porch with a low hipped roof. Attached at the rear is an originally-separate two-story kitchen building. Also on the property are the contributing combination smokehouse/food storage shed, log and weatherboard tobacco barn, and -story main barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Dr. Jordan, a prominent physician. Across NC 57 Dr. Jordan built the Little River General Store and Pharmacy, circa 1870. He taught at the nearby Caldwell Institute, a residential secondary school during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p><br>
<p>David Faucette House, also known as The Elms and Maude Faucette House, is a historic home located near Efland, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1820, and is a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed, vernacular Federal style frame farmhouse with a rear kitchen wing and side wing added in the 1970s. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has flanking exterior brick end chimneys. It features a mid to late-19th century hip-roofed front porch with turned posts and sawn brackets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Paisley-Rice Log House is a historic home located near Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. It believed to date to the late-18th century. The log dwelling is composed of two sections and follows the three-room Quaker plan, or Continental Plan. Located between the two sections is a chimney. The interior features vernacular Georgian woodwork.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Thomas and Mary Hogan House is a historic home located near Carrboro, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, as a -story, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It was enlarged to two-stories and updated with Queen Anne style design elements about 1890. The farmhouse is sheathed in plain weatherboard, has a gable-and-wing form, one gable end brick chimney, one interior brick chimney, and a one-story wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, also known as the Eta chapter of Beta Theta Pi, is a historic fraternity house located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. The fraternity house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Eta chapter of Beta Theta Pi was first active at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) as the Star of the South chapter of the Mystical Seven fraternity from 1852 to 1859, going dormant during the Civil War. After the war, fraternities were banned on campus for several years.</p><br>
<p>The chapter was reestablished in 1884 and was absorbed by Beta Theta Pi, becoming its Eta chapter. It is one of the oldest fraternities on at UNC. In 1905, the chapter built a house on Fraternity Row, located on the edge of campus. Members first occupied the chapter house in April 1905. The new chapter house led to an increase in members, with the growth continuing until World War I.</p><br>
<p>A fire destroyed three of the houses on Fraternity Row on January 9, 1919; because of the risk to campus buildings, UNC offered a land swap to encourage the fraternities to relocate. Beta Theta Pi sold its house to Delta Sigma Pi. However, the former Beta chapter house was destroyed in a fire on December 12, 1929.</p><br>
<p>Beta Theta Pi purchased the George Pickard house on Columbia Street for $25,000 on May 28, 1925. The fraternity moved into the Pickard house in September 1925. However, construction of the new chapter house was delayed.The chapter moved into its new house in 1929. The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House cost around $50,000 ($ in 2022 money).</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the chapter house was used as a quarters for midshipmen who were training at UNC. Both the university and the fraternity expanded during the 1950s and 1960s. However, the fraternity&#39;s membership and financial resources declined during the Vietnam War era and the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 1988, there was a fire in the house which was empty at the time. The fire was started by a torch being used to removed paint and cause $2,000 in damages. The house was undergoing $100,000 in general renovations. In the 1990s, Beta Theta Pi alumni started a campaign to renovate and update the chapter house to current building codes.</p><br>
<p>The fraternity house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 20, 2005. The house is also part of the West Chapel Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House is located at 114 S. Columbia Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. According to its blueprints, it was built or designed by B. McAlester of Columbia, Missouri. The architect is unknown; it may have been a stock plan created by McAlester. The drawings were prepared in December 1927. The Chapel Hill News reported that the same contractor that constructed the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House also built the Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Phi chapter houses around the same time.</p><br>
<p>Beta Theta Pi is a 2 1/2-story brick structure with a basement. It features five bays by three bays and has a modified side-gambrel roof. The house is in the Southern Colonial Revival style and features a full-width, flat-roof portico with Doric order columns. The Greek letters ΒΘΠ are affixed to the portico. There are sidelights on either side of the front door, which is topped by a transom and keystone. In addition, four sets of French doors open to the portico. The chapter house&#39;s second-story windows feature flat brick arches with keystones. The front view of the attic level has five pedimented dormers.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the central structure includes an entry hall, a living room, a trophy room, and a stairway (replaced in 1962). The living room has an original brick wall, quarry tile flooring, and a wooden fireplace mantel with paneled pilasters. The basement has a kitchen, dining room, chapter room, and storage. The second and third floors include dormitory rooms; there are a total of 21 bedrooms in the house.</p><br>
<p>The central building is flanked by lower 2 1/2-story, brick wings with gambrel roofs. The windows of the wings match the main house. The north wing originally had a recessed porch with openings that were rounded arches; these were replaced with a fanlight and French door. The south wing was originally a porte cochere and openings that were round arches. It was expanded from one story to 2 1/2 stories around 1962; the opening was filled with fanlights and French doors, making it match the north wing from the exterior. However, it has an exterior metal fire escape. The south wing includes a television room.</p><br>
<p>To the rear of the property, there is a frame annex and deck, constructed in 1962. It was added as a social hall and is not a contributing building to the National Register status. The chapter house&#39;s windows were replaced in 1988. In 1997, the house was renovated under architect Arthur Cogswell Jr. of Chapel Hill, a fraternity member. This project included adding fire suppression sprinklers.</p><br>
<p>Bingham School is a historic school complex located at Oaks, Orange County, North Carolina. The complex includes a large, expansive, multi-stage headmaster&#39;s house, a contemporary smokehouse and well house. The oldest section of the house is a log structure that forms the rear ell and dates to the early 19th century. Attached to it is a frame addition. The front section of the house, is a two-story Greek Revival style, three bay by two bay, frame block dated to about 1845. The rear of the house features a colonnaded porch with Doric order columns that carries along the rear of the two-story section and the front of the ell. The school operated at this location from about 1845 to near the end of the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Frank Mebane (1865–1926), American industrialist</p><br>
<p>The Winchester Historic District is a historic district which encompasses much of the developed area of Winchester, Illinois. The district includes 438 buildings, of which 273 are contributing buildings. Winchesters historic area represents a typical small, rural county seat; its commercial development is focused around the county courthouse and town square, while low- to moderate-density residential development can be found away from the commercial center. Development in the district began in the 1830s; by the 1870s, most of the significant buildings had been completed. The districts older buildings are mainly designed in the Federal and Greek Revival styles, while its later buildings mostly have Italianate designs. The Greek Revival Presbyterian Church stands out among these traditionally-styled buildings; according to the Illinois Historic Structures Survey, it is the most exceptional Greek Revival church in any Illinois city of over 500 people. The Scott County Courthouse, a late addition to the district in 1885, has also been noted as architecturally significant, though its design does not conform to a single style.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 14, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Northside Historic District is a national historic district located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 398 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Elizabeth City. The district developed from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow / American Craftsman, and Classical Revival style architecture. Notable contributing buildings include the John S. Burgess House , Scott-Culpepper House , Luther C. Lassiter House , William F. Williams House , Miles Pritchard House , Mack N. Sawyer House , the Godfrey-Foreman House , Dr. Walter W. Sawyer House , City Road United Methodist Church , Blackwell Memorial Baptist Church , former Elizabeth City High School , and S. L. Sheep School .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Historic District is a national historic district located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 68 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Elizabeth City. The district developed after 1893, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow / American Craftsman, and Tudor Revival style architecture. Notable contributing buildings include the Preyer-Cropsey-Outlaw House, Markham-Bell House, Bascom S. Sawyer House, Grover Hill House, Montgomery-Corbett House, Dr. Mora S. Bulla House, the W. Paul Jackson House, Jaccia F. Burrus House, Miles L. Clark House , and Calvary Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth City State Teachers College Historic District is a national historic district located on the campus of Elizabeth City State University at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings and one contributing site originally built for the State Colored Normal School at Elizabeth City. The buildings are in the Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman architectural styles.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing resources</h2><br>
<p>The district includes:</p><br>
<p>Campus quadrangle</p><br>
<p>Principal&#39;s House (1921-1923)</p><br>
<p>Moore Hall (1921-1923, enlarged 1939)</p><br>
<p>G. R. Little Library, later, Thorpe Administration Building, now H. L. Trigg Building (1937-1939, enlarged, 1959)</p><br>
<p>Bias Hall (1937-1939)</p><br>
<p>Butler Hall (c. 1925, enlarged 1939)</p><br>
<p>Practice School (1921, moved 1957)</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth City Historic District is a national historic district located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 592 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounds residential sections of Elizabeth City. The district developed after 1789, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Federal, and Late Victorian style architecture. Notable contributing buildings include the Grice-Fearing House , Shirley Armstrong House , Goodman-Matthews-Pool House , Dr. William Martin House , Pool-Kennedy-Lumsden House , Charles-Hussey House , Richardson-Pool House , North Carolina Building , Cobb Building, the former First Methodist Church, Christ Episcopal Church , J. W. Dent House , Dr. Butt&#39;s Drug Store , the McMullen Building , the Lowrey Building , former Citizens Bank , Robinson Building , Kramer Building , Selig Building , the Virginia Dare Hotel and Arcade , First Baptist Church , United States Post Office and Courthouse , and Pasquotank County Courthouse .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, with boundary increases in 1994 and 2021.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth City Water Plant is a historic municipal water plant located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The complex includes the contributing Elizabeth City Water Plant Building, Coagulation Basin , Raw Water Pump House , the Circular Finished Water Reservoir , and the Raw Water Reservoir . The Elizabeth City Water Plant Building is a Mission Revival style brick building sheathed in stucco and built in 1926. It consists of a projecting three-bay three-story central pavilion flanked on each side by identical two-story blocks. It is topped by a broad hipped roof covered by green clay tiles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Norfolk Southern Passenger Station is a historic train station located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was built in 1914 by the Norfolk Southern Railway, and is a long one-story brick building with eclectic Mission Revival style design elements. It measures 98 feet by 36 feet, with a small projecting control booth. It is topped by a tall hipped roof sheathed in clay tile. Passenger service at Elizabeth City ceased in early 1948, and the building subsequently housed a variety of commercial businesses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Old Brick House is a historic home located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was built about 1750, and is a -story frame dwelling with brick gable ends. It sits on a raised brick basement, has a gable roof with dormers, and two interior end chimneys with molded caps. The interior features a richly carved mantel with an elaborate broken ogee pediment. It is one of the few brick-end buildings in the state. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers. It is a member of the small group of 18th century frame houses with brick ends in northeast North Carolina; the group includes the Sutton-Newby House and the Myers-White House.</p><br>
<p>Local legend held that the house was built and first occupied by the pirate Blackbeard, though in reality he had been dead since 1718.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Morgan House is a historic home located in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was built circa 1826 for Samuel Holstead, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style, temple-form frame dwelling. It sits on a brick pier foundation, with a three-part form-a central section flanked by porches. The front facade features a "dwarf portico" supported by two pairs of vernacular Doric order columns that carry an arched central bay.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Burgaw Historic District is a national historic district located at Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 130 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Burgaw. The district developed from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, and includes notable examples of Gothic Revival and Queen Anne style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Burgaw Depot and Pender County Courthouse. Other notable contributing buildings include the M. M. Moore House , Murphy-Sasser House , Dr. H. B. Thomas House , Burton-Noel House , Burgaw Presbyterian Church , Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal  Church , Burgaw Methodist Church , the Burgaw Baptist Church , Bank of Pender , Pender County Jail , and R.H. Holland Motor Company Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Burgaw Depot is a historic train station located at Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850 by the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, with a later 1898 T-shaped addition of passenger waiting rooms and offices and a 1916-1917 addition of freight and warehouse space. It is a long one-story rectangular frame building sheathed in a combination of lap and board and batten siding, and resting on cement, brick and wooden foundations. It is one of only two known surviving antebellum depots in North Carolina; the other is located at Selma, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is located in the Burgaw Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Pender County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a three-story, H-shaped, brick-veneered Georgian Revival style building. The building consists of a hipped roofed main block flanked by projecting gable-roofed wings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Burgaw Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Bannerman House is a historic plantation house located near Burgaw, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a large two-story, five-bay, L-shaped, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a hipped roof pierced by three interior chimneys. The main facades each feature a one-bay pedimented portico, supported by colossal, flat-paneled pillars.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
