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.