📚 Academics
Burruss Hall
Opened 1936First Hokie Stone era
Burruss Hall after a fresh snowfall
Photo: CBGator87, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Iconic auditorium on the Drillfield. Site of commencement and major events.
Fun facts
- •The original design called for a much larger dome, but budget cuts during the Depression scaled it down.
- •Burruss auditorium seats over 3,000 and has hosted everything from commencement to concerts.
Through the years
- 1936
Opened
- 1968
Addition
- 1970
Addition
Stories that happened here
- The Campus Is an Argument Carried Out in RockA president thought his college looked like a shoe factory. A century later, the Board of Visitors wrote stone into policy. Every building shows who was winning the year it went up.
- Left Open ForeverThe Drillfield looks like it was always there. It was engineered: a creek valley piped, graded and promised to stay open. The creek comes back up at the Duck Pond.
On the map
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Close by
A short walk from Burruss Hall.
