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702 N. Alston Ave.

The two houses in this picture were across the street from 701 N. Alston Ave. 702 is on the right, and 704 is on the left. They were located where Leo's Seafood and a gas shop are now located. 2000
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Pearson Cafeteria

The most architecturally interesting of the buildings constructed during NCCU's late 2000s campus expansion.
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Ruth G. Rush Women's Dormitory

Completed in 1939, the Georgian Revival style building was part of the school's Public Works Administration-sponsored campus building campaign. A slightly modified version of Annie Day Shepard Hall, it lacks a gable above the entrance pavillion and the balustrade on the frame Tuscan portico. Unlike Shepard Hall, however, the fanlight at the main entrance is leaded.
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Music And Fine Arts Building - North Carolina College / NCCU

1950 Music and Fine Arts Building, 05.24.11
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Infirmary - North Carolina College

Part of the post-WWII campus expansion.
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Chidley Dormitory

Built in 1951 as a new men's dormitory - then a ways out from the bulk of the campus - Chidley's view of the football field has been rather compromised of late.
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701 N. Alston Ave.

Rental house occuupied by Bowen family.
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James S. Lee Biology Building

Built·in 1956, this Georgian Revival style building is thoroughly compatible with the older campus buildings due to its rectangluar three-story with raised basement, hip-roofed form and English bond brick walls. Cast limestone appears only at the entrances: those at the ends of the building have surrounds with Tuscan half-columns while the main entrance features a convex one-story portico supported by four Tuscan columns.
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Angus W. Mclean Men's Dormitory

This men's dormitory constructed as part of the Public Works Administration building program in 1937 is identical in form to Shepard Hall except that it lacks the shallow end pavillions. Identifying details include a molded box cornice with modillions; the main entrance is distinguished by a frame surround with fluted pilasters, entablature, and flat denticulated cornice. Named in honor of the North Carolina governor instrumental in arranging state appropriations of $100,000 for new brick buildings.
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Library / Albert Lewis Turner Hall / William Jones Building

This tall T-shaped and hip-roofed one-story building with a mezzanine and a raised basement is part of the campus building campaign sponsored by the Public Works Administration. Brick elevations in English bond are punctuated by tall windows with. splayed brick lintels and limestone keystones. Constructed as a library, the building later served as the law school and today contains offices.
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