Hillsborough Street
The street serves as a center for social life among North Carolina State University and Meredith College students.
Bars, restaurants, coffee shops, convenience stores and banks are located along a strip of Hillsborough Street that borders the university.
Leaving campus, the road passes through a medium density residential district, with townhouses lining the street.
There's a traffic circle with Morgan Street as the road passes by Saint Mary's School, before entering Downtown Raleigh.
Within downtown, the road passes by a number of new high-rise office buildings, interspersed with older businesses, such as restaurants and hotels.
[1] A streetcar traversing Hillsborough Street connected North Carolina State University to Raleigh shortly after the college was built.
After the NC State men's basketball team won the national championship in 1983, students converged on Hillsborough Street to celebrate, with at least one injury to a police officer.
Each year, alumni, students, faculty and staff as well as Wolfpack faithful fill the NC State Campus and surrounding areas painting the town red.
Onlookers congregate on Hillsborough Street for the annual Homecoming Parade and watch as dozens of school floats make their way towards the Bell Tower.
On the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson lead the campus and community in a memorial service at the Bell Tower honoring all those who perished in the events of 9/11.
These groups volunteered their time to show their support for, and appreciation of, all the first responders and citizens who lost their lives on that day in 2001.
[1] The bar encompasses a former restaurant, the Morning Room, which served as the unofficial headquarters of Hargrove Bowles' 1972 gubernatorial campaign against Jim Holshauser.
Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law of Campbell University lies near the eastern terminus of the street.
The corporation’s mission is to make the Hillsborough Street community a destination in Raleigh by providing services and programs that improve the economic sustainability of the businesses, and increases the market value of the properties.
