Virginia Tech: Hutcheson Hall – Blacksburg VA

City:
Blacksburg, VA

Site Type:
Colleges and Universities, Education and Health

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Completed:
1940

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Virginia Tech’s Hutcheson Hall, originally known as New Agricultural Hall, “was built in 1940 at a cost of $206,000,” and was constructed as part of a larger Public Works Administration (PWA) project on the campus. It was part of a broader development of several buildings on its corner of campus that involved both the PWA and the Work Projects Administration (PWA). The building was sometimes referred to as “agricultural unit one,” and was expanded in 1950 toward Smyth Hall.

Source notes

Virginia Tech: https://history.unirel.vt.edu/physical_plant/campus_buildings.html (accessed Jul. 13, 2022)

"New Buildings at V. P. I.," Richmond Times Dispatch, Jul. 31, 1940 (pg. 6): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/828026206

"Ten Buildings Dedicated," The New York Times, August 11, 1940: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/11/94836807.pdf

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 13, 2022.

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