Now, in the
North and
South parlors,
both original
parts of the inn,
are eight
in the 19th
century.
munications, fine arts, humanities, business
and economics, natural sciences, government, math-statistics-engineering and
library science.
The exhibit is considered permanent
and a done deal for the space now available. It could grow as the inn expands to
the recently acquired Whitehead Hall, the
former dorm that sits on the inn’s block.
Historic works
John O’Connor ’ 11 was just looking
out for his own when he discovered the
inn gallery by chance. He represents the
Dialectic and Philanthropic Society Foundation, the keeper of some 90 formal portraits of the people who founded and
shaped the University. Most are in storage
because there aren’t enough acceptable
places to hang them, and the Morehead-Cain Foundation had just offloaded 19 of
them to make way for renovations.
O’Connor didn’t want to put all of
those back in mothballs, and he walked
over to the inn to see what it might be
able to handle. “For a lot of these people,
our portrait is the only physical representation that exists,” he said.
Now, in the North and South parlors,
both original parts of the inn, are eight
portraits of men who helped shape UNC
in the 19th century. The foundation
offered about 60 to choose from, and, said
Zogry, “I think we were able to get the
cream of the crop of those not on display
in their chambers.”
He says William Gaston, James Phillips,
Willie P. Mangum (class of 1815), Charles
Manly (1814), Francis Lister Hawks (1815),
Thomas Ruffin, John Owen (1808) and
Clockwise from
upper left: Prints of
the John White
drawings; Billy
Carmichael ’ 21,
standing; Henry
Hunter Fitts ’ 39;
and UNC’s portraits
of Thomas Ruffin,
John Owen (class of
1808) and Duncan
Cameron in the
North parlor.
