Horace Williams House

Horace Williams, a professor of philosophy (depicted here in the oil painting by Mary Rees Graves), was tremendously popular among his students. According to Thomas Wolfe in You Can't Go Home Again, "He was a great teacher, and what he did for us, and for others before us for fifty years, was not to give us his 'philosophy' . . . but to communicate to us his alertness, his originality, his power to think." Students met with him many nights in the front parlor.

On the death of Horace Williams, the University of North Carolina became the sole owner of the house named for him. Restored in 1974, the house is maintained by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill as a cultural resource and art exhibition space.

Video provided courtesy of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. Visit http://www.chapelhillpreservation.com/ for more information.

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