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Found 17 events matching "buildings"

5/8/1942
Campus buildings named

All dorms, the cafeteria, and other non-classroom buildings on campus were given official names for the first time.

1964
Fraternity Court opened

Fraternity Court opened with new buildings to house Greek organizations on campus.

10/15/1954
Hurricane damaged campus buildings

Hurricane Hazel destroyed the cupola on Becton Hall and the roof of the press box at Riddick Stadium.

1957
New lab buildings opened

Hodges Wood Working Laboratory and the Robertson Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Technology buildings opened.

12/8/1938
NYA buildings agreement signed

NC State and the National Youth Administration signed an agreement allowing the NYA to construct a training center on campus. A group of buildings was erected on a site later occupied by the east side of Miller Field and the Jordan Hall Addition. The college took control of these building in 1943 or 1944 and demolished them in 1959.

7/26/1991
Buildings evacuated on campus

The installation of a new irrigation system in the lawn next to the Student Center Annex, later called Witherspoon Student Center, resulted in a cut gas line and forced the evacuation of Harris Hall, Pullen Hall, and the Student Center Annex.

1913
"The Shacks" built

Due to increased student enrollment, ten temporary wooden buildings known as "The Shacks" were constructed.

3/5/1959
Hillsborough Street caught fire

Fire damaged a half-block of buildings across from the NC State campus along Hillsborough and Horne Streets.

Included in Student Life
1997
Alumnus Johnnie Hooper Jones led construction project

Alumnus Johnnie Hooper Jones, Chairman of the Board of J. A. Jones Inc., provided engineering leadership in construction of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Construction on the towers was completed in 1997. They were acknowledged by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as the tallest buildings in the world.

1987
First buildings on Centennial Campus constructed
2012
Greek Village reopened

Greek Village reopened with the newly constructed Kappa Delta house. Redevelopment of Greek Village began in 2008 when the aging buildings were demolished.

2023
The Oval declared a hallowed place

The Oval, an open area on Centennial Campus surrounded by engineering buildings and the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, was designated as the university’s 10th hallowed place.

Circa 1990s
MSE expanded to new facilities

Due to rapid growth of research in the MSE department, MSE expanded into two new buildings on Centennial Campus: Research Building I and the Engineering Graduate Research Center (later renamed the Monteith Center).

2000
Bond package funded construction projects

North Carolina voters approved the Higher Education Facilities Financing Act. NC State's portion of the bond package, more than $468 million, funded four dozen construction projects on campus, including new classrooms and laboratories, as well as major renovations of older buildings.

4/15/1973
Stewart Theatre and Price Music Center dedicated

The two buildings were dedicated during a ceremony at which the NC State University Symphony Orchestra and Choir presented a concert. The 816-seat theater opened during the fall 1972 semester. It was named for James Jackson Stewart Jr., who was dean of Student Affairs from 1954 to 1969.

1972
Curt Fentress graduated

Curt Fentress graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture. His firm designed buildings such as as the Denver International Airport passenger terminal, Incheon International Airport in South Korea, Arraya Tower in Kuwait City, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and Terminal 2 at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

1975
Philip Freelon graduated

Philip Freelon graduated with a bachelor's of environmental design in architecture degree. Signature buildings his firm designed include the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC; the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, NC; the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore, MD; and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, DC. In 2011, he was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.