201 Lenoir Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Building Number: 007
Year Built: 1929
Departments: Communication
Bingham Hall was named for Robert Hall Bingham in 1929. Bingham, class of 1857, was an active and enthusiastic alumnus who frequently spoke at campus events. He and his family ran a private school near Hillsborough called the Bingham School, one of the state’s better known academies.
The Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward recommended in a April 2021 resolution to the Chancellor that Bingham's name be removed from honor based on the following:
- Bingham promoted racial Anglo-Saxonism, a blood-and-soil strain of white supremacist ideology.
- He educated generations of white men to celebrate racial violence as a civilizing force and instrument of order - social, economic, and political - both at home and on a global scale.
Building Features:
- Gender Neutral Restroom: Floor: 1, Room: 130