Virginia Tech: Eggleston Hall – Blacksburg VA

City:
Blacksburg, VA

Site Type:
Colleges and Universities, Education and Health

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

Started:
1935

Completed:
1940

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Virginia Tech’s Eggleston Hall dormitory was constructed in stages, as part of two Public Works Administration (PWA) projects during the Great Depression.

Main Eggleston Hall (440 Drillfield Drive) was constructed first and completed in 1935. Main Eggleston was one of four buildings on the campus completed as part of a massive PWA-sponsored project that cost $1.2 million (PWA Docket No. VA 1790).

Its wings: East Eggleston Hall (410 Drillfield Drive) and West Eggleston Hall (500 Drillfield Drive) were added later, in 1940. Plaques along their respective walls where the buildings are connected to Main Eggleston Hall identify both wings as part of a PWA project.

Source notes

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

"Virginia Tech Campus from the Clouds," Richmond Times Dispatch, Jul. 31, 1935 (pg. 4): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/827984080/

Plaques on-site

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

Location Info


Main St. and Alumni Mall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Location notes: Approx. coordinates

Coordinates: 37.231435, -80.416230

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