Virtual Tour Peers Into Downtown Chapel Hill’s Past
Posted Jun 30, 2021
To the unaugmented eye, the Franklin Centre at 128 East Franklin St. might look like just another warren of small shops. But visitors taking a recently launched virtual history tour can use smartphones as time portals to the building’s many past lives. The Pickwick Theatre opened there in the 1910s, which explains the spiral staircase in the entry.
(Carolina Alumni Review)
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