VPI – Virginia Tech – Gathering Blacksburg History

Aerial views of the VT campus over the years

This collection of aerial views of the VPI/VT campus spans more than 80 years, from 1890 to 1970, revealing decades of growth and transformation across the campus.

Bugle Yearbook – VPI/Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech University Libraries has scanned and hosts the VPI/VT yearbooks since 1895. Permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/11349

VPI Chapel and Library

In 1909, Virginia Tech built its campus chapel, later repurposed as the university library in 1914. The building burned on August 31, 1953, while being dismantled to make way for the new library, later named for Carol Montgomery Newman, longtime English professor and dean of the Academic Department. Standing on the site of today’s Newman Library, the old chapel was empty at the time—its books safely relocated weeks earlier.