Torgersen Hall and Bridge were named after recent President Paul Torgersen. Both the hall and bridge were built in 2000 to accomdate the growing number of students and add a high tech space for students to study. Administrators were skeptical at first of the bridge going over Alumni Mall because it would block the view of War Memorial and the drillfield from Main Street (War Memorial is directly behind me, Main Street is the street that houses the white buildings with red/green awnings). Esocoff and Associates did a fabulous job of making it blend right in with the rest of the campus, using Hokie Stone to blend it in. Along the arch reads Virginia Polytechnic Institue and StateUniversity (see why we call it Virginia Tech now?). On this side of the bridge, on either end reads 1872 a...
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