Campus of Virginia Tech
university campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.
The main part of the campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus. The Virginia Tech campus consists of 130 buildings on approximately 2,600 acres (1,100 hectares). It was the site of the Draper's Meadow massacre in 1755 during the French and Indian War.
Main Campus academic buildings
Agnew Hall
Originally known as the Home Economics Building, Agnew Hall was constructed in 1940 at a cost of $42,525. In 1949 it was named in honor of Ella Graham Agnew, the first woman to receive a field appointment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The building is used primarily by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In 2009, a $1.6 million renovation took place which added lab space to the first floor for the Department of Biological Systems Engineering.
Bishop-Favrao Hall
Bishop-Favrao Hall is home to the Department of Building Construction, which is under the College of Architecture and Urban Studies (CAUS), and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction. Much of the building has its systems exposed so that students can see them and learn about the systems. Bishop-Favrao was completed in December 2007 and is named after Richard Bishop and William Favrao, the Department of Building Construction's founder and department head until 1977.
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