By Dan Nonte, University Relations
This postcard from the 1930s shows the Home Economics Building, now a freshly renovated wing of the Mary Frances Stone Building.
The public is invited to attend an open house for the renovated wing of the Mary Frances Stone Building from 4-6 p.m. Aug. 10. Tours will showcase the results of this $5.4 million Higher Education Bond project.
The wing opened as the $136,000 Home Economics Building in October 1928, when some campus streets were still unpaved. In addition to offices and classrooms, it housed an art room, sewing rooms, food laboratories and a nursery school. The Stone Building, the home of the School of Human Environmental Sciences, opened in 1951 and incorporated the Home Economics Building.
The renovation lasted from Feb. 16, 2004, until April 22, 2005. Workers waterproofed the foundation and replaced the windows and roof. They gutted the inside of the building and installed new walls, floors, ceilings, wiring and sprinklers.
The renovated space contains classrooms; observation rooms equipped with video cameras; the Costume Collection maintained by the Department of Consumer, Apparel and Retail Studies; and offices for the Department of Social Work, the Center for New North Carolinians, and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
