Brooks Hall

Brooks Hall was completed in 1926 with Hobart Brown Upjohn serving as the architect. The building was originally named D.H. Hill Library for Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr. the third president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and served as the first dedicated library building on campus.

The building is located on the site of the first, second and third dormitories, which were built between 1892-1894. After construction of the larger D.H. Hill Library in 1953, the building was assigned to the School of Design and renamed in honor of Eugene Clyde Brooks, the fifth president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1956. That same year, the north wing addition, known as the Matsumoto wing, was completed, with alumnus F. Carter Williams listed as the architect of record and founding faculty member George Matsumoto as the design architect. Other renovations, including enclosing the second floor of the Rotunda were completed. This work consolidated the school from three spaces in Patterson Hall, 111 Lampe Drive (formerly Daniels Hall) and “The Barracks,” former WWII army barracks behind Patterson Hall into one united space.

In 1966, the Cameron (south) wing was completed. The 1980s saw several renovations, including the closing in of the second-floor lobby to create the Carol Groatnes Belk Rotunda, the addition of faculty offices to the third floor, and the addition of a slide room and offices in the Design Library. Throughout the 1990s, several ADA renovations were completed.

In 2014, the IT Lab was renovated in the Cameron wing, and dedicated as the William Keating Bayley Information Technology Laboratory in honor of alumnus and first director of information technology, Bill Bayley.