🏠 Residence · corps of cadets
Rasche Hall
Rasche Hall
Photo: Eric T Gunther, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Corps of Cadets barracks, originally Barracks No. 2 (1894). Named for William Henry "Bosco" Rasche, professor of mechanism and descriptive geometry (1895-1951). Demolished November 2013, replaced by Pearson Hall East in 2015.
Fun facts
- •The Pearson family who funded the replacement hall met while living in Rasche Hall as cadets.
Through the years
- 1894
Opened
- 1957
Rebuilt and renamed from Barracks No. 2 to Rasche Hall
- 2013
Demolished
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.
- Add Caldwell Walks to BlacksburgA 16-year-old from Craig County, a brand-new college, and a record that took a century to read right.
- The Corps That Wouldn’t QuitA fistfight, a near collapse, a war record and a long road from all male and all cadet to the Corps you see today.
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A short walk from Rasche Hall.
