But with their unimpeachable justifications and considerable rhetorical firepower, in 1927 Chase and Wilson (and the other library advocates) were able to secure an allocation of $625,000 to build a new University library. The legislative budget committee proposed $500,000, but the full Legislature appropriated $825,000. McLean, however, reduced the figure by $200,000 through a special budget authority available to the governor at the time, with the understanding that the two wings in the design would not be built initially, but would be funded at a later time. Much later, as it turned out. The 1952 addition essentially completed the building as originally proposed.
As you see, our friends down the road at Duke were also building a general library at this time as part of the new West Campus. The original section of what is now Perkins Library was completed in 1928 and occupied in 1930. It was built for $620,000 but was smaller than the UNC Library. The Duke Library was 852,000 cubic feet in size, compared to 1,050,000 for the Carolina library, which was 85,000 square feet. I do not know the square footage for Duke.
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