- City:
- Raleigh, NC
- Site Type:
- Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Designer:
- William H. Deacy
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed the shaft (which has been partially constructed during the 1920s) and base of bell tower on the North Carolina State College campus in Raleigh, NC, and faced it with granite. The project also included quarrying and preparation of granite in Surry County, NC, and transportation of this stone to Raleigh.
Source notes
North Carolina State University, University Archives Reference Collection, University Buildings, Sites, Landmarks Files: Box 1; North Carolina State University Committees, Memorial Tower Committee Records: Box 2, Folders 6-8. All sources held by NC State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center.
Site originally submitted by Todd Kosmerick on June 1, 2019.
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