Just like a wall or a building constructed in layers of brick, our campus—its buildings, walkways, playing fields, and classrooms—reflects layers of histories. Each generation of our community built on the old layers by adding features, changing old ones, and giving new meanings to the places we use today for learning, innovating, and putting knowledge to service in society.

This atlas features new perspectives on NC State's campus history and shares the ways in which our built environment reflected and shaped our community over time. Here you can explore the people and events of NC State's history through the places we know.