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Thomas Clark Atwood (December 5, 1874 - February 2, 1943) was a noted American civil engineer and architect. He was born in Provincetown, MA and later moved to Malden, MA, where he graduated from Malden High School in 1893. He graduated from MIT in 1897 with a degree in Civil Engineering. His early career included work in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York City, and New Haven Connecticut. In 1913, he was named supervising engineer for the construction of the Yale Bowl.

In 1920, he moved from Baltimore to Durham, NC to be the chief engineer at the Durham Hoisery Mills. In 1921, he was hired by John Sprunt Hill to manage a $10 million construction plan at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He founded the T.C. Atwood Organization to manage the contract and hired architect Arthur Cleveland Nash, of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White, came to Chapel Hill from New York to serve as the consulting architect for Wilson Library.

During their partnership, Atwood and Nash designed a number of prominent buildings and residences in North Carolina, including the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, the Education and Commerical Buildings at the NC Fairgrounds, the Durham Post Office, and the Carolina Inn. The firm also specialized in college football stadium design, including Kenan Memorial Stadium (UNC), Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke University), Sanford Stadium (University of Georgia), and Bryant-Denny Stadium (University of Alabama).