Hokie Stone

Hokie Stone with impurities such as siltstone and sandstone is multi-colored and found on some newer Blacksburg campus structures.

[1] The remaining 20% of stone, which is black, is mined once per year from an additional quarry located on a local farm near Lusters Gate.

In 1914, the first McBryde Hall introduced the Hokie Stone-clad Collegiate Gothic style, similar to great European universities.

[1] In 2010, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors made it official policy that Hokie Stone be the predominant material in the facade of every new building on the Blacksburg central campus.

Thirty-two Hokie Stones were quarried by university stonemasons and engraved with the names of students and professors killed in the April 2007 school shooting.

[7] The Virginia Tech football team enters the playing field at Lane Stadium through a tunnel with an exit topped by a block of Hokie Stone which is touched by each player.

[9] On September 26, 2013, the football team wore helmets decorated in a Hokie Stone motif for their game at Georgia Tech.