Source: NCDA&CS, 11/4/21


The newest building at the N.C. State Fair now has its official name. During the 2021 fair, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced the name at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and with that announcement he surprised the man who supervised the building’s construction.

The building was completed just before the 2021 fair, and Troxler revealed the name as the James Robert “Bob” Stanfield Natural Resources Center.

“I kept looking to see if his fingers were crossed,” Bob Stanfield said shortly after the ribbon cutting. “I’m more flabbergasted than any kid over in that fair [midway].”

Prior to managing the construction of the Stanfield Center, Stanfield oversaw the construction, reconstruction and/or renovation of seven buildings in Heritage Circle. That included moving and rebuilding some of the log buildings in the circle. The new Stanfield Center sits up the hill from Heritage Circle in the N.C. State Fair Conservation forest near Gate 6.

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