Lampe Drive

The building known as 111 Lampe Drive has had several names, including the Physics Electric Building and Daniels Hall, was completed in 1926 with Hobart Brown Upjohn serving as the architect. When it was first completed, it originally housed the departments of electrical engineering and physics.

In 1937, the building was renamed Daniels Hall for Josephus Daniels, a charter member of the Watauga Club and Raleigh News & Observer editor from 1894. The name was removed in 2020 following the Daniels family’s request and a public petition to the UNC System due to Daniels’ ties to white supremacy. In 1953, an addition was completed by architect Northrup O’Brien to add an additional three floors to the building.

In the mid-fifties, the building became home to administrative offices for the School of Design on the fourth floor until the school relocated to space in Brooks Hall. In 2021, the first floor is assigned to the College of Design. After renovations, the Industrial Design department moved into the newly-completed faculty offices, studios, classrooms and makerspace.