John Lee's Blog (5)

As one of the few public open areas on the North Campus of North Carolina State University, the Court of North Carolina is a particularly important public space. The space is mostly defined by a large rectangular pastoral area measuring about 700 by 300 feet. Flanking this large grassy area on three sides are seven buildings (Leazar Hall, Poe Hall, Page Hall, 1911 Building, Winston Hall, Caldwell Hall, and Tompkins Hall) on the fourth and west side of the court is an open transition to Peale Hal… Continue

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Here is a photo from the North Carolina State Archives Flickr collection online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/north-carolina-state-archives/ … Continue

As many others probably often have done, I sometimes find myself walking up on Poe Hall trying to find some redeeming aesthetic value in the building.

Worry no more, I have found an artistic refuge for Poe in something know as brutalist architecture. Yes, the design of Poe was a… Continue

The more time I spend online engaging historical resources, the more convinced I become that the shear volume of what's available has outstripped my (our) abilities to comprehend or even discuss digital history as body of content. Just take the collection online at HeritageQuest Online (http://www.heritagequestonline.com) from ProQuest. The site includes access to U.S. Census records, Freedman's Bureau records, Revolutionary War records, over 22,000 books on local and genealogical history, and P… Continue