Brown Building on the UNCG Campus

Known as the Brown Building since 1960, the Music Building opened in 1925 on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. It served as the School of Music's home until 1999, when a new Music Building was dedicated on McIver Street. Recently, we found a post card with the above view of the original music building in the 1950's. The post card was written to a family in Daytona Beach, Florida, by a man named Bill. When the post card was written, UNCG was known as the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, and only females attended, hence the use of the word "fems" below.

On January 26th (today's date) 1958, Bill wrote,

Hey--

Every day I go by this building it reminds me of my younger days before they made the practice rooms sound proof-- you could hear the fems trying to reach high C on our front porch on a warm spring night, boy the years do fly-- see you soon, Bill

What an opening sentence for a novel!  Bill, unless you make yourself known to us, we claim that line!

By the way, we tried our best to replicate the view found on the post card while photographing the building. After all, we aren't called Greensboro Daily Post Card!! Surprisingly, the building's façade hasn't changed! See a 1927 version of the Brown Building here.

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Comments

[Ayten]

Dear Jan,

This is Ayten. Thank you for visiting my blog and about your question on quince...yes, i heard that it is difficult to grow them but they grow quite well in Azerbaijan...although quality depends from kind to kind...from region to region :)...all the best!!!

[Carolina John]

Wow, I didn't know the school of music had moved to a new building. when i graduated from app state in 1998 i had some good friends who were music majors at uncg. Shows how far behind i am.

[GDP]

Hi John and Ayten! The Brown Building is still being put to good use, although it is currently undergoing renovations. I guess the School of Music deserved a new home. In 2000, the Department of Theatre inherited Brown as a performance space. See their web page at http://www.uncg.edu/euc/boxoffice/venues/index.php?go=brown

[Gisela Hood]

Jan,

one does not realize the many interesting and historical places and sites Greensboro has. What a great idea to showcase them on your blog. I hope that our social studies teachers will visit your blog and so that our students will get a sense of community.