Elizabeth “Lizzie” McIver enrolled at the State Normal and Industrial School at its opening in October 1892. She was the younger sister of the school’s founding president Charles Duncan McIver. In fact, one of the drivers that led McIver to advocate for State Normal was the lack of reasonably priced… Continue reading…
The Observatory was built in 1981 in the Cane Creek area of Alamance County, approximately 8 miles from Burlington, North Carolina. It is a joint project between The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical (A&T) State University, and Guilford College.
The tennis courts are located on campus, north of Rosenthal Gymnasium and west of the Quad. Early tennis courts were located on the site of the present Mary Foust Residence Hall.
The Student Recreation Center, designed by O’Brien/ Atkins Associates, of Durham, North Carolina, was opened in 1992.
The Spring Garden Apartments, designed by Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, Inc., of Charlotte, North Carolina, opened in 2006 as student housing.
Prior to 1910, mail was distributed through the dormitories. In 1910, a lock-box Post Office was installed in the basement of Administration Building. In 1932, in a general reorganization of the campus after the library fire of September, 1932, the Post Office moved to the Students’ Building until it was… Continue reading…
The Petty Pedestrian Bridge, designed by Jenkins-Peer Architects of Charlotte, North Carolina, is a ninety-five foot structure connecting College Avenue to the Petty Building. Originally inspired by a pedestrian bridge traversing the Seine in Paris, the Bridge incorporates a glazed glass deck on a steel base.
The Milk Bar was located in the Dining Hall above the Tavern during the 1940s. It was under the direction of the Home Economics Department. The Milk Bar served ice cream, milk shakes, and “many different delicacies derived from milk” in the evening between 7:30 and 10:30 and had the… Continue reading…
The first laundry on campus, located in Brick Dormitory, was destroyed when the dormitory burned in January of 1904. The second laundry and the heating plant was built in 1905 on Walker Avenue and used until 1948. It was renovated in 1954 to house the first television facility on campus… Continue reading…
A lake and an amphitheatre were designed by J. D. Spinks, an engineer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and constructed by the Works Project Administration (WPA), in 1941. The lake was approximately six feet deep in the deeper parts and two feet deep nearer the shore. Two small creeks running through… Continue reading…
