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The James L. Brandt Papers (1948-2012) contains files on Frank Lloyd Wright's visit to NC State in May 1950, on School of Design Dean Henry Kamphoefner, and on the Student Publication of the School of Design. It also contains biographical information about Brandt. Additional items include photographs, slides, correspondence, drawings, and other papers belonging to James Brandt. James L. (Lewis) Brandt was born in Brooksville, Mississippi, on 20 September 1926. He grew up in Washington, Durham, and Greenville, all in North Carolina, and he graduated from Greenville High School. In 1944 he enlisted in the Navy, and he was discharged in 1946. In 1948 he enrolled in the North Carolina State College School of Design, and he graduated with a B. A. in Architecture in 1951. Beginning in 1952 he worked for architect G. Milton Small. He retired professionally in 1991, and he passed away on 6 February 2012. Less

The Les Thornbury Interviews of Early North Carolina State University College of Design Faculty and Alumni contains DVDs and videotapes with video oral history interviews of early NC State University College of Design faculty and students conducted during the 1990s. These interviews have been converted to digital files and are accessible to researchers in that format. Leslie Arden Thornbury is a filmmaker and an alumnus of the NC State University School of Forest Resources and School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He was born on December 19, 1947, in Raleigh, N.C. He attended radio school in San Diego, California and served as a radioman in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. After his military service, Thornbury completed his education, received a bachelor of conservation from North Carolina State University in 1974 and embarked on his career as a television producer. During the 1990s he worked on a proposed video documentary of the history of the College of Design which included these video oral history interviews with early faculty and students. Less

The Lewis Clarke Oral Histories represent 30 interviews with a cross section of students who attended the North Carolina State University School (now College) of Design between 1950 and 1980 in architecture and landscape architecture. Also included are interviews with Clarke family members, NC State University professors, clients, professionals, and former students who worked with or for Lewis Clarke Associates. Digital materials in this collection include interview audio recordings, transcripts, field notes, and abstracts/tape logs. Paper files in this collection contain interviewee resumes, lists of questions asked, and proper word lists. Lewis James Clarke was born in Carlton, Nottingham, England on 10 March 1927. In 1952 he joined the School (now College) of Design at North Carolina State University, where he taught until 1968. His firm, Lewis Clarke Associates (LCA), completed hundreds of projects over the years, including the original master plan for the Research Triangle Institute, the N.C. Zoo, and Palmetto Dunes. Clarke retired in 2000. He passed away in 2021 at the age of 94. Less

The Historic Architecture Research Project Records contain drawings and project files by students in the Department of Architecture, School of Design, at North Carolina State University. Included are measured drawings, photographs, negatives, field notes and sketches, historical information, and essays. The majority of the projects document historic buildings in North Carolina. Twenty-one other states and the District of Columbia are represented, as are Germany, Mexico, and Colombia. Other course-related materials include syllabi, correspondence, uncompleted projects, and a petition to eliminate the course requirement. The correspondence series includes correspondence of professors in the North Carolina State University Department of Architecture, including Cecil D. Elliott, Henry L. Kamphoefner, Vernon Shogren, and Lawrence Wodehouse, with North Carolina State University architecture students, various North Carolina clerks of court, Charles E. Peterson of the National Park Service, and George S. Koyl, Moira B. Mathieson, and Earl H. Reed of the American Institute of Architects. Between 1951 and 1969, many architecture students at North Carolina State University completed summer projects documenting historic buildings and districts. Beginning in 1959, these projects were submitted to the National Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey. The project was formalized with the creation of the undergraduate course, "Historic Architecture Research" (ARC 300), which was required for admission to the fifth year architecture program. In 1964, students undertook a project to record the town of Beaufort in Carteret County, N.C. Participants created maps, measured drawings of buildings, and an historical analysis of the town's development. Less