Walter and Mary Spearman House

Contributors:
James M. Webb, architect; James M Webb and John B. Webb Associates, architects
Dates:

1949

Location:
Chapel Hill, Orange County
Street Address:

418 Whitehead Circle

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1795-1975 (2006).

Note:

The house built for the UNC School of Journalism dean, Walter Spearman, and his wife is the first of five houses on Whitehead Circle that Jim and John Webb designed. A giant rock protruding from the site serves as a pivot point for the placement of the house.