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The Tar HeelThursday, July 14, 198829 .4c Davs Library I ; 4 "5 !4 n - JfaMCtA tit 'as , , S a -B- .v. . , iliil! :::: 4 Lt III .rTI ,; t.;. I "vW 1. i ! Designed by two award-winning architects, the Walter Royal Davis Library is the largest educational building in North Carolina. This $22.9 million library, which is often considered a more serious place to study than the Undergraduate "Zoo," has 10 acres of floor space over nine levels on a 3-acre site. Davis has a total seating capacity of 3,013 and a capacity of 1.8 million volumes. The library includes several ingenious design features. One of the most striking features is a large main gallery hung with colorful banners, showing historic printer's marks represented in the Rare Book Collection. The building was named for Walter Royal Davis, a Texas businessman with family roots in Elizabeth City. He was a member of the Board of Trustees for eight years and he fought in the state legislature to claim for Chapel Hill the major portion of funds received from the sale of University utilities. Tar Heel file photo Kenan Stadium Kenan Stadium, located near the center of campus, is generally referred to as one of the most beautiful football arenas in the country. Inside Sports magazine has rated the stadium as one of the five best places in the United States to watch a college football game. Tar Heel football teams have played in Kenan for 60 years. In the first game at Kenan on Nov. 12, 1927, the Heels defeated Davidson 27-0. William Rand Kenan, an 1894 UNC graduate, built the stadium as a memorial to his parents, William R. Kenan and Mary Hargrave Kenan. The complete cost of the stadium and the accompanying fieldhouse was $303,000. The original seating capacity was 24,000. The stadium is now under renovation to add seating. 5 , - - ; :y1 T V Tar Heel file photo M-X "''V ' ; : '1 II 1 "Him i fc. iMmwinMiaJ JQ q J 1 tWM 0 V7 9 Morehead Planetarium For stargazing, UNC offers the Morehead Planetarium, the first planetarium to be owned by an American university. Regular planetarium programs are presented for tens of thousands of school children and general audiences each year, with the most popular offering occurring at Christmas. Between I960 and 1975, 43 Amer ican astronauts were trained here in celestial navigation. The planetarium was presented to the University in 1949 by the John Motley Morehead Foundation. To the north of the building rests a hybrid rose garden and sundial, one of the largest of its type, with a diameter of 35 feet. Tar Heel file photo
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