View of Tompkins Hall, North Carolina State College, showing streetcar tracks on Hillsborough Street in foreground.

Tompkins Hall, NC State University (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Title:
View of Tompkins Hall, North Carolina State College, showing streetcar tracks on Hillsborough Street in foreground.
Topics:
Campus and Town
Subjects:
Architecture
Depressions -- 1929 -- North Carolina
Universities and colleges
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Extent:
19 x 24 cm.
Item identifier:
0003691
Created Date:
circa
Genre:
Views
Names:
North Carolina State University -- Buildings more info on North Carolina State University -- Buildings 
Location:
Raleigh (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives Photographs

Building: North Carolina State University, Daniel Augustus Tompkins Hall -- Textile Building (Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina)

General note:
Tompkins Hall is named for Daniel Augustus Tompkins, who pushed for the College of Textiles and designed the building that now holds his name. The original hall was built in 1901, but destroyed by fire in 1914. It was rebuilt the same year.
Location:
Raleigh (N.C.)
Subjects:
College buildings
Historic buildings
Latitude, Longitude:
35.786701, -78.665199