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Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
It was the first Hokie Stone dormitory at Virginia Tech and is the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus still in use as a residence hall. The east wing, originally known as Barracks No. 9, was added in 1939 as a WPA project. In 1952 the building was named for, Theodorick Pryor Campbell, a former professor of modern languages, academic ...
In 2010, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors made it official policy that Hokie Stone be the predominant material in the facade of every new building on the Blacksburg central campus. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Today each campus project uses an average of 1,500 tons of Hokie Stone, with each ton of stone covering about 35 square feet.
February 12 – Barton Hotel fire in Chicago, Illinois, killed 29. February 16 – Elderly home for Catholic church fire in Yokohama, Japan, killed 100. April 28 – Green Mill Hotel fire in Chicago, Illinois, killed 12. May 11 – Cinema fire in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Poland, killed 58 and injured 20. [55]
The “full inferno” spread to other buildings and the main hall collapsed shortly after 2 a.m., according to News Channel 11. The former Virginia Intermont College campus went up in flames on ...
The fire could be seen in videos burning the main building on campus, as well as adjacent structures. News crews with WJHL-TV reported observing the building collapse after 2 a.m.
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The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, known locally as the 'Corporate Research Center' or the 'CRC' or 'VTCRC', is a science park next to the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, comprising 33 completed buildings on 230 acres (0.93 km 2) of land. The CRC is located adjacent to the Virginia Tech Airport.