Entrance to Berry Residence Hall
Berry Residence Hall is named for Leslie Graham Berry, a graduate of NC State's civil engineering program. Photograph by Ed Funkhouser.
Description
The Public Works Administration built the Ninth Dormitory at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today the dormitory is still in service under the name Berry Residence Hall. Construction of new dormitory building: brick load-bearing exterior walls, steel column with bar joist 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.
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Berry Hall (left) and Becton Hall (right). Both buildings constructed under the PWA, not the WPA as labeled.
Freshman Quadrangle, WPA buildings
Berry Hall (left) and Becton Hall (right). Both buildings constructed under the PWA, not the WPA as labeled.
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]. All sources held by NC State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center.
Project originally submitted by Todd Kosmerick on May 30, 2019.
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