
{"id":26622,"date":"2012-06-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26622"},"modified":"2012-06-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:59:00","slug":"a-southern-gems-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/06\/21\/a-southern-gems-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Southern gem&#8217;s fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_26624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26624\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/06\/21\/a-southern-gems-fate\/_1000065a-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000065a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"_1000065\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000065a1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000065a1-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000065a1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000065a1-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000065a1-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front porch of the Hogan-Rogers house sits unoccupied and overgrown. Though the historic house is currently in dissrepair, it could find new life as a commuity center in the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood.  Photo by Duncan Hoge<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>By Rose Laudicina<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ernest Dollar, executive director for the Chapel Hill Historic Preservation Society, likes to refer to uncovering the history of the Hogan-Rogers house as his real-life Oprah Winfrey episode. <\/p>\n<p>The history of the house has a little something for everyone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c elements of discovery, drama, mystery and what Dollar hopes will be a happy ending. <\/p>\n<p>Dollar first heard about the house, located at 1614 Purefoy Drive near the historic Rogers Road neighborhood, when the fire department was talking about burning it for training exercises and the neighborhood was banding together to try to save it. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I heard the words \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchistoric house,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and my ears perked up,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dollar said. The next thing he knew, he was getting a tour of the historic sites in the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood from David Caldwell, a Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) member. <\/p>\n<p>To the ordinary passerby, the two-story house is inconspicuous, a dilapidated structure with all the windows boarded up. But when Dollar saw it, he was immediately intrigued.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26627\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/06\/21\/a-southern-gems-fate\/_dsc7818a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC7818a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"_DSC7818\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC7818a.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC7818a-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC7818a-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC7818a-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC7818a-360x239.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1614 Purefoy Drive is in disrepair, but the site\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history makes it worth saving, says Ernest Dollar.  Photo by Duncan Hoge<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNot only was the fire department eyeing the building but St. Paul AME Church had recently bought the land the house was on and was in the process of obtaining permits to put a new complex on the site.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Right then and there we knew we had to act fast to find out some way to preserve this house,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dollar said. <\/p>\n<p>With the help of preservation society intern Lauren Poole, Dollar discovered that not only was the house of historic value, it was of rare historic value for multiple reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Built in 1843 by Thomas Lloyd Hogan of the Chapel Hill Hogan family, the plantation home is one of only seven antebellum homes in Chapel Hill, meaning it was built before the Civil War. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once we found that, we realized how endangered this house was and how much this house means to Chapel Hill history,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dollar said. <\/p>\n<p>For that reason alone the house had major historic value, but what Dollar and Poole discovered next made the house even more special. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Hogan family probably lost possession of the house in the early 20th century,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dollar said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then Sam Rogers Jr., the son of former slaves, bought the house and then lost it during the Great Depression.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>According to historic documents, Rogers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wife Mary Hogan was the daughter of Morris Hogan, who was the son of Alexander Hogan, the plantation owner Thomas Lloyd Hogan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son, and Eliza Burse, one of the Hogan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slaves. <\/p>\n<p>Dollar and Poole found out that the house passed between white and black owners throughout its history, and that Morris Hogan was not the only mixed-race child of the Hogan family. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This was not an isolated incident,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dollar said.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26630\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/06\/21\/a-southern-gems-fate\/_1000071a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000071a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"_1000071\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000071a.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000071a-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000071a-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000071a-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1000071a-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historic Hogan-Rogers house on Purefoy Road was built in 1843 by Thomas Lloyd Hogan.  Photo by Duncan Hoge<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHaving learned the extensive history of the house, Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, St. Paul AME Church and RENA, along with the preservation society, are trying the save it. <\/p>\n<p>One of their ideas is to move the structure to the Rogers Road neighborhood and convert it into a community center as part of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s landfill-mitigation efforts. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Dollar is hoping that St. Paul AME Church will preserve the home\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basement, which is where the Hogan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slaves lived, as part of a museum they are planning to build on the site. <\/p>\n<p>Dollar said the cost to move the house will be around $40,000, but that to totally renovate the structure it could cost $600,000, which Penny Rich, a member of the Rogers Road mitigation committee and the Chapel Hill Town Council, said is money they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have but are trying to find through grants and loans. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really frustrating because there is money out there, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rich said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what you can apply for and how the money can be used is very different.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners recently set aside $120,000 of their FY 2012-13 budget for the community center, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unclear exactly how the money will be used. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a lot of passion around that house,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rich said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you find something like that, that has so much history, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to lose it. It is a really important part of our heritage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Dollar likes to refer to uncovering the history of the Hogan-Rogers house as his real-life Oprah Winfrey episode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26634,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions\/26634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}