In 1887, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation creating the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, a land-grant institution to provide education, research, and extension services to the state. When the College opened in 1889, it consisted of a 62-acres site with one building. This building, the original Main Building (later renamed Holladay Hall), housed all of the college’s activities during its first year: kitchen, dining-hall, shop, and gym in the basement; offices, classrooms, and library on the first floor; and dormitory facilities on the second and third floors. In the following decade, a number of new buildings were built, including a Mechanical Building, Watauga Hall, Primrose Hall, four dormitories, an infirmary, and several farm and dairy buildings.
As the university’s enrollment continued to grow throughout the twentieth century, more land was acquired and more buildings and facilities were constructed. By the 1980s, however, the main campus was running out of space. In 1984 and 1985, Governors James B. Hunt and James G. Martin transferred parcels of undeveloped land from the Dorthea Dix hospital property to North Carolina State University, forming the basis for NCSU’s Centennial Campus. With later land acquisitions, this area totals approximately 1,000 acres of land and is larger than the main campus.
As of 2007, the University’s Raleigh campus consists of approximately 2,100 acres of land. Its hundreds of buildings house more than eight million square feet of built space and accommodate a community of over 31,000 students and faculty.
For more information about the history of the University's campus and facilities, please see the
Historical Sketch of North Carolina State University or the
Facilities Division's Campus History. For more information specifically related to Centennial Campus, please see the
Centennial Campus Documentation Project.Negatives and contact sheets are located at the beginning of the subgroup. The photographic prints follow and are physically arranged according to the identification schema listed below. For the purposes of this finding aid, the collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the building, facility, or location. In cases where a facility is named for a person, the person’s last name is used for arrangement purposes. (D. H. Hill Library, for example, is alphabetized by “Hill.”) Please note that some facilities are arranged according to their former names, some according their later names, and some according to both.
The organization schema includes the following categories:
UA 023.05.001 - Campus facilities and views. Negatives
UA 023.05.002 - Campus facilities and views. Proofs
UA 023.05.010 - Facilities, A-B
UA 023.05.011 - Alumni Memorial Building (see also Infirmary)
UA 023.05.012 - Barns
UA 023.05.013 - Brooks Hall
UA 023.05.014 - Broughton Hall
UA 023.05.015 - Burlington Engineering Laboratories (Burlington Nuclear Laboratories)
UA 023.05.020 - Facilities, C-D
UA 023.05.021 - Carmichael Gym
UA 023.05.022 - Carter-Finley Stadium
UA 023.05.023 - Chancellor's residence
UA 023.05.024 - Clark Hall
UA 023.05.025 - Cox Hall
UA 023.05.026 - Danforth Chapel (see also King Religious Center)
UA 023.05.027 - Daniels Hall
UA 023.05.028 - Dormitories
UA 023.05.030 - Facilities, E-F
UA 023.05.031 - Faculty Club (University Club)
UA 023.05.032 - Fountain
UA 023.05.033 - Free Expression Tunnel
UA 023.05.040 - Facilities, G-H
UA 023.05.041 - Gardner Hall
UA 023.05.042 - Greenhouses
UA 023.05.043 - Harrelson Hall
UA 023.05.044 - D. H. Hill Library (see also Brooks Hall)
UA 023.05.045 - Holladay Hall
UA 023.05.050 - Facilities, I-L
UA 023.05.051 - Infirmary
UA 023.05.052 - Kilgore Hall
UA 023.05.053 - King Religious Center (YMCA Building)
UA 023.05.054 - Leazar Hall
UA 023.05.060 - Facilities, M-N
UA 023.05.061 - Mann Hall
UA 023.05.062 - McKimmon Center
UA 023.05.063 - Memorial Bell Tower
UA 023.05.065 - Nelson Hall
UA 023.05.066 - 1911 Building
UA 023.05.070 - Facilities, O-P
UA 023.05.071 - Page Hall
UA 023.05.072 - Patterson Hall
UA 023.05.073 - Peele Hall
UA 023.05.074 - Poe Hall
UA 023.05.075 - Polk Hall
UA 023.05.076 - Power plant and smokestack
UA 023.05.077 - Primrose Hall
UA 023.05.078 - Pullen Hall
UA 023.05.080 - Facilities, Q-S
UA 023.05.081 - Reynolds Coliseum
UA 023.05.082 - Ricks Hall
UA 023.05.083 - Riddick Engineering Laboratories
UA 023.05.084 - Riddick Stadium
UA 023.05.085 - Student supply stores
UA 023.05.090 - Facilities, T-Z
UA 023.05.091 - Talley Student Center (University Student Center)
UA 023.05.092 - Thompson Gymnasium and Thompson Theater
UA 023.05.093 - Tompkins Hall
UA 023.05.094 - Vetville, Trailwood, and Westhaven
UA 023.05.095 - Watauga Hall
UA 023.05.096 - Winston Hall
UA 023.05.097 - Withers Hall
UA 023.05.098 - Zoology Building
UA 023.05.101 - Campus aerial views, 1900s-1920s
UA 023.05.102 - Campus aerial views, 1930s-1940s
UA 023.05.103 - Campus aerial views, 1950s-1960s
UA 023.05.104 - Campus aerial views, 1970s-1980s
UA 023.05.105 - Campus aerial views, 1990s-2000s
UA 023.05.111 - Campus views, 1890s-1900s
UA 023.05.112 - Campus views, 1910s-1920s
UA 023.05.113 - Campus views, 1930s-1940s
UA 023.05.114 - Campus views, 1950s-1960s
UA 023.05.115 - Campus views, 1970s-1980s
UA 023.05.116 - Campus views, 1990s-2000s
UA 023.05.120 - Campus facilities and views. Reproductions
UA 023.05.121 - Railroad
UA 023.05.122 - Cannon
UA 023.05.123 - Oak tree and E=mc2 tree
UA 023.05.124 - Monuments, memorials, and historic markers
UA 023.05.125 - Hillsborough Street
The following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog.