Posted on June 28 2011 by Andrew Kelynack

N.C. State bookstore is toast despite an effort to save it

A landmark on the N.C. State University campus is vanishing.

Demolition has started on the 50-year-old student bookstore, to the disappointment of some preservationists. A photo of the building’s distinctive “folded-plane” walkway canopies appeared this spring in Preservation Magazine, published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The building is being torn down to make way for a major addition and renovation to the Talley Student Center.

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