Main Building and President's House, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute

15_1075_022 Va Normal.JPG

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Title

Main Building and President's House, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute

Subject

African Americans, education

Description

The main building for Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institution (as Virginia State University was then named) opened in 1888, five years after the school was established. It contained offices, classrooms, dormitories, a library, museum, and chapel, and the dining facilities. It was demolished in the 1930s.

Source

Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Virginia…Twenty-Fifth School Year, 1907-1908 (1907)

Publisher

Petersburg: Kirkham & Co.

Contributor

Library of Virginia

Rights

CC BY-SA

Format

JPG

Type

Photograph

Identifier

15_1075_022 Va Normal

Coverage

Petersburg, Virginia