Stuart, Duncan R.

James Walter Fitzgibbon (1915-1985) helped found the School of Design at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) in 1948. Fitzgibbon was hired as the associate architect for campus planning during the School of Design's inception. He also served as an architectural professor at North Carolina State College from 1948 to 1953. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Fitzgibbon received his bachelor of architecture in 1938 from the University of Syracuse where he won the Gifford Design Prize. In 1940, Fitzgibbon received his masters of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. There he won the Warren Prize design competition and was a finalist in the Rome Prize competition. He worked as the associate architect for campus planning at the University of Oklahoma prior to joining Henry Kamphoefner to establish the School of Design. Fitzgibbon later served as president of Synergetics Inc., an association of Raleigh architects and engineers, before taking a position with Washington University in St. Louis. Fitzgibbon returned to the School of Design in 1967, serving for one year.

Ralph Fadum was Dean of Engineering from 1962 to 1978 at North Carolina State University. His home is located at 3056 Granville Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1993 Fadum had the home placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is also known as the Nancy Fields Fadum House.

The Daniel House is one of Fitzgibbon's most famous designs. The home was designed and built in the late 1940s in Knoxville, TN.

From the guide to the James Fitzgibbon Papers, 1949-1950, (Special Collections Research Center)