D.H. Hill Library

Been meaning to post some photographs of libraries that I love and that I've used.  And I'll get to that one of these days, but I thought that I'd start with a library that I have just used for the first time.  NC State's D.H. Hill Library.  Long-time readers of the facutly lounge may recall my post ("What did students study in South Colleges before the Civil War?") on Davidson Professor D.H. Hill's math textbook, which had some pretty amusing questions in it.  Such as: "A gentleman in Richmond expressed a willingness to liberate his slave, valued at $1000, upon the receipt of that sum from charitable persons. He received contributions from 24 persons; and of these there were 14/19ths fewer from the North than from the South, and the average donation of the former was 4/5ths smaller than that of the latter. What was the entire amount given by the latter?"

Calvin informed me of something that I was ignorant of -- that D.H. Hill later served as a Confederate General.  So as I was wandering around NC State's campus this weekend, I wondered whether the "D.H. Hill Library" was any relation to my D.H. Hill.  Turns out the D.H. Hill of library fame is the son of General Hill.  More fodder for the multi-generational families I love to study.

Anyway, here's a picture of the library.  Next up, the broken button at Penn's Van Pelt library....

Comments

[Jake Stevens]

Hmm. Perhaps "amusing" should be struck and replaced with "appalling" or "disgusting"?

[Brad Smith]

I am shocked, Al, that you didn't know that DH Hill was a southern general in the War. My faith in all your posts I've enjoyed on southern landmarks is now shattered. I can not read the Faculty Lounge in quite the same way ever again.

[Alfred Brophy]

Sorry to disappoint you Brad! My knowledge of things southern drops off in early 1861; then it picks up again in the early 20th century.

[online memorials]

Nice library, it is so modern!