Rooflines around the country's oldest state university building
Chapel Hill takes its name from an abandoned Anglican chapel that stood on the site before the university was chartered on Dec. 11, 1789. Old East, whose cornerstone was laid in 1793, is a National Historic Landmark and the oldest state university building still standing — a reminder that campus-adjacent roof framing in this town spans more than two centuries of construction practice.
Hilly terrain and campus-era eaves
Homes on Chapel Hill's hilly, tree-covered in-town lots often carry rooflines and eave heights that predate any standardized gutter sizing. Durham's roughly 100 days of measurable rain a year make a mismatched or aging system on one of these older campus-adjacent roofs more likely to overflow than fail outright.
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