Buildings and Grounds. Downtown Campuses Records
These records document the establishment of Wake Forest University's downtown Winston-Salem campuses in the Innovation Quarter and Brookstown areas. Materials in the collection include emails, newsletters, articles, fliers, and booklets.
Biographical and Historical Note
Wake Downtown is the location of three of Wake Forest's academic programs in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, and Engineering, as well as one of the campuses of Wake Forest School of Medicine.The Wake Forest School of Medicine moved some courses to downtown Winston-Salem in July 2016 and undergraduate classes began taking place downtown in January 2017. Classes take place at Innovation Quarter, a district that consists of academic groups and private businesses. The Innovation Quarter buildings are warehouses previously owned by R. J. Reynolda Tobacco Company, a tobacco manufacturing company that was originally based in Winston-Salem.
In addition to the Wake Downtown campus at Innovation Quarter, the historic Brookstown campus in downtown Winston-Salem offers classrooms, collaborative work areas, and study spaces for faculty, staff, and graduate students.
Collection Overview
These records document the establishment of Wake Forest University's downtown campuses in the Innovation Quarter district and Brookstown. The materials include emails, newsletters, articles, fliers, and booklets. There is material regarding the history and mission of Innovation Quarter, as well as the opening of Wake Downtown and its academic programs at Wake Downtown.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by Towne Moores, 2023
- Access Restrictions
- Collection is open for researchers.
- Copyright Notice
- The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
- Preferred Citation
- Buildings and Grounds. Downtown Campuses Records (RG 28.5), Z. Smith Reynolda Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.