- City:
- Raleigh, NC
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Ross Shumaker (architect)
- Contractor:
- Ervin-West Construction Co.
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration built the Eighth Dormitory at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today the dormitory is still in service under the name Becton Residence Hall. Construction of new dormitory building consists of brick load-bearing exterior walls, steel columns with bar joists and concrete slab floor construction, and steel roof trusses with Porete slab and slate shingle roof. The interior finish was plaster with wood trim and Bruce block flooring.
Source notes
North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina, Major College Projects of the Public Works Administration [photo album], in University Archives Photograph Collection - Campus Facilities and Views Photographs: Box 70, Folder 34; North Carolina State University, University Archives Reference Collection, University Buildings, Sites, Landmarks Files: Box 1; “Freshman Quadrangle, WPA buildings” [photograph, ca. 1939, source].
Site originally submitted by Todd Kosmerick on May 30, 2019.
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