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The original High School on the campus became Phenix Hall when Hampton City Public Schools opened a new Phenix High School in 1962. Phenix Hall was damaged in a minor fire on June 12, 2008. [43] The Hampton University Museum was founded in 1868 and is the nation's oldest African-American museum. The museum contains over 9,000 pieces, some of ...
In 1937, Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland ended his leadership and passed away on August 5, 1939. In recognition of his contributions to the university, the board renamed the building from Old Main (recently called College Hall) to Kirkland Hall. [4] Until March 2024, the renovation of Kirkland Hall remained closed, allegedly due to construction.
Hampton Convocation Center is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1993 and is home to the Hampton University Pirates basketball team. The arena replaced Holland Hall gymnasium, which holds women's volleyball matches and tournaments. The construction cost was about $4 million–$5 million.
Ruben Erickson, a student at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, holds a bag of takeout food which he acquired from an on-campus dining hall on March 31, 2020.
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Emancipation Oak is a historic tree on the campus of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, in the United States. The large, sprawling southern live oak ( Quercus virginiana ), believed to be over 200 years old, [ 2 ] is 98 feet (30 m) in diameter, with branches which extend upward as well as laterally.
The original building survives as Phenix Hall on the University's campus, and houses several research offices including the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, [8] which hosts the data center for NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere mission, the only space mission managed by a historically black university.
WHOV is the radio station of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, United States.It broadcasts jazz, gospel, and R&B music to the Hampton Roads area from its studios in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communication and transmitter located separately on the Hampton University campus.