On this day in 1958: Capping an 18-year legal struggle, the Ackland Art Museum is dedicated at the University of North Carolina. As specified in his bequest, the museum’s benefactor, William Hayes Ackland, is interred within the building with a recumbent statue on his marble sarcophagus. When he died in 1940, Ackland, a Washington lawyer, […]
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Duke and UNC: ‘alike as two peas in a pod’?
Posted in On This Day, tagged ackland art museum, duke chapel, duke university, rollins college, unc chapel hill, william hayes ackland on September 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
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