Venable HallĬarolina’s chemistry department has called Venable Hall home for nearly 100 years, but the first eight decades of that period were spent in a different Venable Hall than the one on campus today. That’s when it was replaced by the current Chase Dining Hall at the neighboring Rams Head complex and torn down to make room for the Student and Academic Services Buildings Tar Heels know today. Built in 1965, the original Chase Dining Hall sat at the intersection of Ridge Road and Manning Drive until 2005. Chase Dining HallĬhase Dining Hall has been serving meals to Carolina students for nearly half a century, but not in the same location. Today the building is home to the College of Arts & Sciences’ psychology and neuroscience department. Though some of the early 1900s building remains, most of the original Davie Hall was torn down in 1966 to make room for a newer and larger replacement. Located in the same place as today’s Memorial Hall, the original structure was deemed unsafe by inspectors and replaced by the current building in the early 1930s. By the late 1960s, the teams had moved to new facilities, and the Emerson Field acreage was redeveloped.Ĭarolina’s main gathering venue – even in the 1880s – was Memorial Hall, though the building was a much different structure than we know today. Located where Davis Library and the Student Union sit today, Emerson Field was home to Carolina’s football, track and field, and baseball teams beginning in 1916. The spot where today’s students study is the same one earlier generations visited to cheer on Carolina’s athletic teams. The Tin Can was torn down in 1977 to make room for Fetzer Hall. It also hosted performances from musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and even served as a dormitory for a period after World War II. Carolina’s men’s basketball team called the building home in the 1920s and 1930s. Artifacts from the site have been discovered during archaeological digs over the years.īefore the Dean Dome, before Carmichael Arena and even before Woollen Gym, there was the Tin Can. The Eagle Hotel sat on the northeastern corner of McCorkle Place where Graham Memorial is today, and served as a boarding house for both students and visitors from the mid-1800s until a fire destroyed it in 1921. The Carolina Inn wasn’t opened until 1924, but overnight visitors who came to campus before then still had a place to stay. Take a look at how campus has changed through the years Old East, Old West and South Building have held their places on Carolina’s campus for centuries, but many other structures have come and gone throughout the years.Īs the campus has been reshaped to fit new needs through renovations and construction projects, popular spots for earlier generations of Tar Heels have become unknowns for today’s students. Athletics Display Sub Menu for Athletics.Life at Carolina Display Sub Menu for Life at Carolina.Gillings School of Global Public Health.Online and Distance Education Opens in new site.Academics Display Sub Menu for Academics.Campaign for Carolina Opens in new site.News and Updates Display Sub Menu for News and Updates.Branding and Identity Guidelines Opens in new site.About the University Display Sub Menu for About the University.

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