Maness, Carolyn.

The Chancellor's House on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was built in 1922 under Chancellor Julius Foust. Chancellor Foust conducted a massive building project on campus during the 1920s. Harry Barton (1876-1957) served as architect during this campaign, designing and building the Chancellor's House and numerous dormitories. Barton, a native of Pennsylvania, was a well-known architect in the Guildford County area. His work includes Meyer's Department Store (1904), the Guildford County Courthouse (1918), and the Cone Export and Commission Company Building (1927). The Chancellor's House served as the residence for UNCG's chancellors from 1922 to 1995, when Chancellor Patricia Sullivan was given off-campus housing. By 1995 the house had fallen into disrepair and the cost of preservation was considered too great, so the Board of Trustees voted in September 1999 to demolish the building and extend Elliot University Center. Jean Gordon, Associate Professor of History Emeritus, and Carolyn Maness, a UNCG alumna, organized a campaign, Save Our Chancellor's House, to prevent the demolition in September 1999. Their efforts included gathering numerous alumnae opinions, raising awareness of the building's and the architect's significance through exhibits and newspaper articles, a letter-writing campaign to Chancellor Sullivan, the Board of Trustees, and Governor Hunt, as well as working with local preservation societies to develop a new use for the building and to raise money for preservation. In 2003 the house was moved further up Spring Garden Street, restored, and opened in February 2004 as an Admission's Center.