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Collection Number: 40100

Collection Title: Facilities Planning and Design Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1947-2014

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Size 191 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 92600 items)
Abstract The University's Facilities Planning and Design Office was created in 1959 as the Planning Office and was given responsibility for evaluating space need requests and facilities use and for developing plans for both new buildings and renovations. (Once plans were final and a contract was awarded, responsibility for a specific project moved to the University's Construction Administration Department.) In 1974, the Planning Office was reorganized and its name changed to Facilities Planning Office. In 1987, the name was modified to Facilities Planning and Design Office. The responsibilities of the office, however, have remained basically the same. Records consist mostly of planning project files and general files concerning space needs and utilization. Also included are some files from designer Herman B. Carpenter.
Creator University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Facilities Planning and Design.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.
Access to box 3:04 is restricted to UNC Facilities department staff and campus administration, or to patrons who have received permission from facilities to view these plans.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Facilities Planning and Design Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40100, University Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.
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.
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Processed by: University Archives Staff, May 1985, June 1987, April 1991, December 2000, October 2016, October 2019

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2020

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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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

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In 1959, the North Carolina General Assembly appropriated funds to the Consolidated University of North Carolina to establish a long-range planning effort for capital improvements. In September of that year, the Chapel Hill campus used $15,000 from the appropriation to create the University Planning Office, with Arthur Norman Tuttle, Jr., as director. Initially the office was part of the Division of Business Affairs. On or shortly after 1 July 1966, however, it began reporting to the Assistant to the Chancellor, Claiborne S. Jones. This arrangement continued until March 1968, when the Planning Office returned administratively to the Division of Business Affairs and began reporting to the Director of Operations and Engineering.

The first major responsibility of the Planning Office was to develop a ten-year plan for campus space needs. Planning staff began by evaluating property and facility use and requests for space. Eventually they developed specific design programs for new buildings and for renovations and additions to existing structures. In the process, they worked closely with many campus groups, including departmental and school personnel, the faculty Buildings and Grounds Committee, and administrative officials, as well as with architects, consulting engineers, and officers of the Consolidated University's General Administration and Board of Trustees.

The Planning Office prepared various need justifications and cost estimates for submission to campus officials, General Administration, the Board of Trustees, and the General Assembly. Planning staff supervised the architect's preparation of schematic drawings and construction specifications for the contractor bidding process in approved projects. With the award of contract and the initiation of construction, primary responsibility for the project passed from the Planning Office to the Office of the University Engineer (later Office of Construction and Engineering, then Construction Administration Department).

In 1969, Gordon H. Rutherford replaced Arthur Tuttle as Director of the Planning Office. On 1 July 1974, the Planning Office was reorganized and its name changed to Facilities Planning Office. Also at that time, the office began reporting directly to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Business. In 1987, the Facilities Planning Office was renamed Facilities Planning and Design Office. While the division of responsibilities within the office has become finer, its basic functions have remained unchanged.

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The records of the Facilities Planning and Design Office are arranged in two series. The first includes general administrative files that reflect the office's relationship to other offices within the Division of Business and Finance, as well as to offices in other campus divisions and to non-campus agencies and officials. Series 2 consists of project planning files arranged in subseries according to type of facility. Building names are given as file titles. Also included is a series of files kept by designer Herman B. Carpenter.

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Contents list

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The files in this series concern the internal operations of the Facilities Planning and Design Office, especially funding and staff needs, and the relationship of the office to other campus and non-campus agencies and organizations. General campus plans, as opposed to specific designs, are also found in this series. The files are alphabetically arranged.

Box 1:1

Annual/Monthly Reports, Construction/Engineering Division: Monthly, 1958-1960

Annual/Monthly Reports, Construction/Engineering Division: Annual, 1966-1969

Architectural Firms, Selection of, 1980

Architecture of Campus Buildings, 1967-1982

Budget, Facilities Planning Office, FY 1976/1977-1985/1986

Buildings and Grounds Committee, 1965-1967

Campus Planning Program: General, 1957-1977

Campus Planning Program: Consulting Architects, 1957-1963

Capital Improvements: General, 1947-1981

Box 1:2

Capital Improvements: General, 1981-1985

Capital Improvements: Monthly Staff Meeting Minutes, 1965-1973

Capital Improvements: Monthly Status Reports, 1959-1985

Oversize Volume SV-40100/1

Capital Improvements: Presentations to General Assembly: FY 1961-1963

Oversize Volume SV-40100/2

Capital Improvements: Presentations to General Assembly: FY 1963-1965

Oversize Volume SV-40100/3

Capital Improvements: Presentations to General Assembly: FY 1965-1967

Box 1:2

Country Club Property, 1973

Box 1:3

Energy Conservation: Central Control and Monitoring System, 1979

Energy Conservation: Energy Audit Committee: General, 1978-1979

Energy Conservation: Energy Audit Committee: Report, 1979

Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation: General, 1975-1981

Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation: Committee, 1977-1984

Energy Conservation: Energy Management System, 1976-1982

Energy Conservation: Program for Managing Energy (Servidyne), 1978

Handicapped, Provisions for, 1979-1989

(under Title IX)

Long-Range Planning: Health Affairs: General, 1961-1972

Long-Range Planning: Health Affairs: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, 1962-1977

Long-Range Planning: Health Affairs: School of Medicine: General, 1962-1972

Long-Range Planning: Health Affairs: School of Medicine: Space Inventory, 1972

Long-Range Planning: Parking/Paving, 1967

(see also Series 2.10.)

Long-Range Planning: Utilities, 1966-1968

Parking Study, 1964

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Bath Facilities in Residence Halls, 1985

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Classroom Improvement Project, 1980-1984

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Dormitory Renovations, 1973

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Electrical: Classrooms, 1974; 1980

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Electrical: Residence Halls, 1971-1972

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Exterior Renovations to Six Buildings, 1985

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: High Rise Dorms Safety, 1983-1988

Projects: Multiple Building Projects: Roofing Projects, 1977-1987

Box 1:4

Projects: Planned, Never Built: Continuing Education Center, 1966; 1969-1980

Projects: Planned, Never Built: International Student Center, 1969

Projects: Planned, Never Built: Institute of Marine Science, Housing, 1974

Projects: Planned, Never Built: Pharmacology-Toxicology Center: General, 1965-1968

Projects: Planned, Never Built: Pharmacology-Toxicology Center: Design Report, 1967

Projects: Planned, Never Built: Polk Residence Hall, 1962-1968

Projects: Planned, Never Built: Student Apartment Project, 1979-1981

Projects: Planning Office Renovations, 1964

(Bynum Hall)

Projects: Regional Airport Study Committee, 1968

Projects: Ronald McDonald House, 1979-1986

Projects: Solid Waste Disposal, 1970-1971; 1977

Box 1:5

Sorority Housing, 1980-1981

Space: Committee, 1965-1978

Space: Space Utilization, 1962-1970

Space: Space Utilization Study, 1976; 1979

Space: Space Issues, 1982-1984

(NCNB Plaza)

Outside Organizations: Duke Power, 1985-1990

Outside Organizations: Town of Chapel Hill: General, 1977-1984

Outside Organizations: Town of Chapel Hill: Zoning, 1960-1984

Outside Organizations: North Carolina Commission on Higher Education Facilities, 1967-1981

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The files in this series pertain to specific design programs developed by the planning staff to meet stated campus needs. The Files are arranged by type of facility (administration buildings, classroom buildings, etc.), then alphabetically by the name of the facility. See also Projects in Series 1.

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Box 2:1:1

440 W. Franklin, 1971-1974

(former Blue Cross Blue Shield building)

Box 2:1:2

Battle-Vance-Pettigrew, 1967-1982

Bynum, 1978

(see also Planning Office, under Projects in Series 1)

Box 2:1:3

Planning project files

Box 2:1:4

Planning project files

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Box 2:3:1

Abernethy Hall, 1978-1980

Ackland Art Museum, 1971-1980

Alumni Hall, 1972-1976

Box 2:3:2

Animal Care Facility, 1961-1974

Box 2:3:3

Art Classroom Building, 1962-1986

Box 2:3:4

Beard Hall, 1966-1968

Box 2:3:5

Berryhill Basic Education Facility, 1966-1968

Box 2:3:6

Berryhill Basic Education Facility, 1963-1971

Box 2:3:7

Berryhill Basic Education Facility, 1964-1981

Box 2:3:8

Bingham Hall, 1979-1981

Box 2:3:9

Francis Owen Blood Laboratory, 1981

North Carolina Botanical Garden, 1975

Box 2:3:10

Brauer Hall, 1965-1981

Box 2:3:11

Caldwell Hall, 1973, 1981-1982

Box 2:3:12

Cancer Research Center, 1973-1982

Box 2:3:13

Carrington Hall, 1956-1978; 1986-1988

Box 2:3:14

Carroll Hall, 1965-1980

Box 2:3:15

Carroll Hall, 1969-1979

Box 2:3:16

Celsus Snack Bar, 1980

Box 2:3:17

Chase Hall, 1962-1986

Box 2:3:18

Clinical Sciences Building, 1975-1979

Box 2:3:19

Clinical Sciences Building, 1963-1973

Box 2:3:20

Coker Hall, 1961-1963; 1977

Box 2:3:21

Daniels Student Stores, 1963-1968

Box 2:3:22

Davie Hall, 1962-1980

Box 2:3:23

Davis Library, 1978-1989

Box 2:3:24

Davis Library, 1978-1989

Box 2:3:25

Dental Research Center, 1962-1969; 1977-1981

Box 2:3:26

Dey Hall, 1965-1968; 1979

Evergreen House, 1979-1980

Box 2:3:27

Faculty Laboratory and Office Building, 1970-1980

Box 2:3:28

Faculty Laboratory and Office Building, 1970-1980

Box 2:3:29

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, 1963-1977

Box 2:3:30

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, 1968-1970

Box 2:3:31

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, 1969-1971

Box 2:3:32

Gerrard Hall, 1976-1981

Box 2:3:33

Graham Student Union, 1960-1986

Box 2:3:34

Greenlaw Hall, 1963-1969

Hamilton Hall, 1965-1972; 1984

Hanes Hall, 1967; 1974; 1986

Health Affairs Library, 1969-1985

Hill Hall, 1975-1983

Box 2:3:35

House Undergraduate Library, 1963-1966

Box 2:3:36

Institute of Marine Sciences, 1963-1970; 1980-1982

Box 2:3:37

Kenan Laboratory Tower, 1965-1979; 1981

Box 2:3:38

Knapp Building, 1964-1974

(Institute of Government)

Box 2:3:39

Lenoir Hall, 1965-1982

Box 2:3:40

Limited Life Medical Buildings, 1966-1973; 1979-1983

Box 2:3:41

MacNider Hall, 1966-1980; 1983

Box 2:3:42

Manning Hall, 1964-1970; 1983

Box 2:3:43

Memorial Hall, 1965; 1974; 1986-1988

Mitchell Hall, 1964-1979

Box 2:3:44

Molecular Biology Laboratory, 1986-1988

Box 2:3:45

Morehead Instructional Laboratories, 1981-1988

Box 2:3:46

Morehead Planetarium, 1969-1979

Murphey Hall, 1973-1982

Nash Hall, 1972

Naval Armory, 1967-1983

New East, 1959-1968

New West, 1966; 1980-1981

Old Clinic Building, 1974; 1983-1985

Old Dental School, 1971-1976

Old Nursing School, 1970-1974

Box 2:3:47

Paul Green Theatre, 1960-1978

Box 2:3:48

Peabody Hall, 1985-1986

Person Hall, 1972-1981

Phillips Hall, 1965; 1980-1989

Box 2:3:49

Playmakers Theatre, 1981-1987

Population Center, 1968-1980

Box 2:3:50

Preclinical Education Facility, 1970-1982

Box 2:3:51

Preclinical Education Facility, 1964-1970

Box 2:3:52

Rosenau Hall, 1977-1982

Box 2:3:53

Saunders Hall, 1972-1976

Scuttlebutt, 1980-1986

Seismological Research Station, 1964-1968

Box 2:3:54

Sitterson Hall, 1984-1990

Box 2:3:55

Mary Ann Smith Building, 1979

Social Work, School of, 1973

Box 2:3:56

Student Health Services Building, 1961-1980

Box 2:3:57

Swain Hall, 1969

Swing Building, 1965-1967; 1980; 1988

Venable Hall, 1968-1980; 1987

Wastewater Research Center, 1975-1982

Box 2:3:58

Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 1961-1984

Box 2:3:59

Wilson Hall, 1959-1981

Wilson Hall Addition

(Eco-Bio-Marine Sciences)

Box 2:3:60

Wilson Library, 1954-1986

Box 2:3:61

Wilson Library Renovation, 1984-1989

Box 2:3:62

YMCA-YWCA Building, 1973

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.6. North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

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See also Long-Range Planning in Series 1.

Box 2:10:1

Parking and Paving, 1976-1986

Box 2:10:2

Parking and Paving, 1966-1977

Box 2:10:3

Health Affairs Parking Deck, 1977-1979

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1. Files of Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Bruce Runberg, 1987-2014 (Addition of September 2016)

1800 items.

Acquisition Information: Transferred in September 2016 (RT 20160919.1).

Arrangement: The department's original arrangement has been maintained.

This addition includes files related to the Space Use Committee, the Facilities Working Group, Facilities Planning Committee, and the Carolina North Project.

Access to box 3:04 is restricted to UNC Facilities department staff and campus administration, or to patrons who have received permission from facilities to view these plans.

Box 3:01

Space Use Committee Memorandums and Minutes, 2005-2014

UNC Chapel Hill Campus Master Plan, March 2001

Facilities Work Group Member Lists

Facilities Work Group, 2008-2014

UNC Chapel Hill Physical Plant

Facilities Work Group Minutes

Facilities Working Group #2

Facilities Working Group #1

Facilities Working Group Bond Bill Planning

Facilities Planning Committee

Facilities Planning Committee #8

Facilities Planning Committee #7

Facilities Planning Committee #6

Facilities Planning Committee #5

Box 3:03

Facilities Planning Committee-Guidelines, Responsibilities

Facilities Planning Committee Minutes, 2001-2012

Carolina North, Horace Williams

Carolina North, Infrastructure Advisory Group

Carolina North Forest Management

Carolina North Joint Staff Working Group

Carolina North Infrastructure Phase 1

Carolina North Steering Committee

Carolina North, 2011

Carolina North

Carolina North Notebooks

Carolina North Working Group Meetings

Carolina North Coordination Meeting

Carolina North Steering Committee

Carolina North Infrastructure Phase 1

Carolina North Working Group

Collaborative Science Building

Research Building North Carolina

Carolina North Permit Saw, 2012, 01840 Corps of Engineers

Municipal Yard, Municipal Operations Facility

Carolina North, 2011-2012

Carolina North Research Center Team Build Approach

Carolina North, 2009-2010

Carolina North, 2008-2009

Carolina North, 2007-2008

Carolina North, 2003-2006

Box 3:04

UNC Addition to Smith Middle School floorplan

Access restricted to UNC Facilities department staff and campus administration, or to patrons who have received permission from facilities to view these plans.

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Acquisitions Information: RT 20090504.1.

Photographs of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill science and medical facilities projects, interior and exterior, that Herman B. Carpenter, worked on. Carpenter designed university and medical school laboratory furniture for Southern Desk Company in Hickory, N.C., and designed interior layouts for architectural firms through his private consulting company. Correspondence is chiefly thank you notes from campus administrators and faculty, with some requests for and notes on further communications about projects. Floor plans are of buildings and spaces, some of which may no longer exist.

OPF-40100/1-11: Access restricted to UNC Facilities department staff and campus administration, or to patrons who have received permission from facilities to view these plans.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/1

Venable

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/2

Venable, Cancer Research wing of hospital

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/3-4

OPF-40100/3

OPF-40100/4

School of Medicine

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/5

Phillips

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/6-7

OPF-40100/6

OPF-40100/7

Coker

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/8

MacNider, Biochemistry Lab of the Psychiatric wing of hospital, School of Pharmacy

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/9-10

OPF-40100/9

OPF-40100/10

Child Development Center

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-40100/11

Bed Tower Addition to NC Memorial Hospital

Box 3:02

Carolina North-related, 2000s

Box 3:03

Herman Carpenter correspondence

Photographs of campus buildings

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