{"nrhp_refnum":"88002046","name":"Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina Historic District","other_names":["North Carolina Agricultural &amp","Technical State University","Nor"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E. side of Dudley St. between Bluford St. and Headen Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.07350502000003,"lon":-79.77782816299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A college historic district of about 10.10 acres in the northwest corner of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University campus in Greensboro, Guilford County. It holds five red brick buildings built between 1922 and 1939, plus the entrance lawn and driveway circle.","why_significant":"The buildings are among the oldest surviving structures on North Carolina's first black land-grant university campus and represent its second and third major building campaigns. They are good examples of Classical Revival academic architecture, including work by Greensboro architect Charles C. Hartmann. They also reflect the growth of higher education for the state's black citizens.","narrative":"At the northwest corner of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, five red brick buildings and a landscaped entrance lawn form the historic core of the campus. Dudley Memorial Building (1930), Noble Hall (1922), Morrison Hall (1923-24), Murphy Hall (1923) and Richard B. Harrison Auditorium (1939) display varied interpretations of Classical Revival design, with stone quoins, string courses, keystoned arches and, at Dudley, an Ionic portico. Charles C. Hartmann designed Dudley Memorial, and Leon McMinn of the Federal Works Agency designed the auditorium. The college was founded in 1891 as North Carolina's land-grant institution for black students and moved to Greensboro in 1893. None of its original buildings survive. The 1920s buildings were paid for by a large state appropriation for black education, and the auditorium was built by the Public Works Administration. Exteriors are largely unaltered, and the buildings still serve academic, administrative and residential uses.","period_of_significance":"1922-1939","architect_builder":"Hartmann, Charles C.; McMinn, Leon, Public Works Admin.; H. L. Coble (contractor, Harrison Auditorium); designers of other buildings unknown","architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a college campus: Morrison Hall remains a dormitory, and the other buildings house classrooms, offices, student services and an auditorium.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.078152-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7206/47720610/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88002046.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002046/df14117ded-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002046/df14117ded-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dudley_Memorial_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dudley_Memorial_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720610","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_and_Technical_College_of_North_Carolina_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17183726"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/agricultural-and-technical-college-of-north-carolina-historic-district-88002046/"}