#8 Price Hall (Agricultural Hall)
Price Hall was built in 1907 as Agricultural Hall. It was later named for Professor Harvey Price, dean of the College of Agriculture for nearly 40 years. It was a massive modern facility when it was built. Sporting some of the latest innovations, including the first ice machine on campus, which took most of the space on the first floor of the building and made it possible to cease harvesting ice from the pond to the southwest. Today, Price Hall is still home to part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. It houses the Departments of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science.
Dean Harvey Price – College of Agriculture & Life Sciences – 1908-1945
Related Links
Land Grant @ 150
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act and created the land-grant university system. With the sweep of his pen, Lincoln made education more accessible, shaping the future of a young United States.
Virginia Tech celebrates this land-grant heritage 150 years later.
Calendar of Events
2012 Exhibits
The Morrill Act and Virginia Tech
Reception and opening
July 11, 4:30 pm
Newman Library, 2nd floor
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
September 5-October 19
Newman Library, 1st floor
2012 Lincoln Lectures
A Man Called Lincoln
James I. Robertson
September 6
The Age of Lincoln, Then and Now
Vernon Burton
September 11
Saving the Last Best Hope on Earth: Lincoln and the Constitution
Charles Hubbard
September 27
An Inestimable Jewel: Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Era Constitutional Amendments
Thomas E. Mackey
October 8