- City:
- Raleigh, NC
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Colleges and Universities, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1942
- Designer:
- Ross Shumaker (architect)
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1942 the Work Progress Administration began construction for a building to serve as an armory, athletics coliseum, and student assembly hall. Only the skeleton was constructed during World War II; materials shortages caused by the war halted progress. After the war, construction recommenced when the college arranged other funding sources, and it was completed in 1949.
Source notes
North Carolina State University, University Archives Reference Collection, University Buildings, Sites, Landmarks Files: Box 1, Box 7 ;
Technician (Raleigh, N.C.), 16 January 1942 [student newspaper available here].
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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