Lee Hall
Lee Hall is located on Washington Street in the Prairie Community. The building is named for Claudius Lee, a long-time faculty member.
Lee Hall houses 824 residents on its eight floors (7 floors and ground level) including the Galileo and Biological and Life Sciences theme housing programs.
In 1997, students in a history class found a page in the 1896 Bugle (Virginia Tech's student yearbook) claiming that Claudius Lee had been president of the Ku Klux Klan. A panel named by then-president Paul Torgersen examined the available historical records about the organization. A Klan expert, John Kneebone, hired by the university determined that the Klan was extinct in Virginia in 1896 (the modern Klan in fact dates to a 1915 rally, in Stone Mountain, Georgia), leaving open the possibility that this may have been some kind of collegiate society attempting to appropriate the image of the nineteenth century Klan.
Lee Hall's penthouse, the highest point in Blacksburg, was home to the campus radio station, WUVT's, transmitter until May 2009, when the station vacated Lee Hall as part of the process of upgrading to a new transmitter and transmit location atop Price Mountain.
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