Virginia Intermont College - Buildings

Buildings

The campus of Virginia Intermont is eight blocks from downtown Bristol. Campus buildings are a blend of modern and historic structures. Major buildings and facilities are described below.

  • The Turner Student Center, completed in 1959, is named for Dr. Floyd V. Turner, president of Virginia Intermont from 1956 to 1979.
  • The Worrell Fine Arts Center was completed in 1961. The center contains the Dorothy Cigrand Trayer Theatre. The Recital Hall contains a three-manual Moller organ. Theatre and Recital hall were air-conditioned in summer 2011.
  • The Science Hall was completed in the spring of 1963 and was completely updated in fall 1999. It was again renovated in summer 2011.
  • The J. Henry Kegley Center is an amphitheatre-style lecture hall.
  • The Humanities and Social Sciences Building is a three-story classroom and faculty office building.
  • Harrison-Jones Memorial Hall, completed in 1967, serves as a chapel-auditorium. It seats 982 people in the air-conditioned space, which also houses the college's Flentrop organ. The structure is named for the Rev. J. R. Harrison, founder of the college, and his son-in-law, S. D. Jones, Intermont president from 1889 to 1898.
  • The J. Henry Kegley Auditorium is inside Harrison Jones Memorial Hall.
  • The Virginia Ruth Hutton Blevins Art Building was donated to the college in 1997 and renovated in 1998.
  • The Arnold House, on the corner of Moore and Intermont Drive, is a former family residence that was donated by Bristol businessmen Jack and Joe Arnold.
  • Student housing is concentrated in the following buildings: The Main Complex, Hodges Hall, East Hall, Intermont Hall, Prader Hall, and West Hall.
  • The Smith-Canter Gymnasium, built in 1928, is named for Mary Lou Smith, an alumna and long-time faculty member of the college, and Virginia Canter, who served as a faculty member and later registrar before her retirement
  • The J. F. Hicks Memorial Library houses a traditional print collection and provides access to many electronic resources. The library has over 160,000 items listed in the Appalachian College Association catalog, which is shared with 26 other association members. Approximately 55,000 of these items are print materials contained in the library, while online access is provided to over 97,000 electronic books.
  • The Old Manse houses classrooms, faculty offices for the English department, and the Writing Center. The Writing Center was funded in 1995 by the Jessie Ball du Pont Foundation.
  • The Riding Center is located six miles (10 km) from the main campus, just off Exit 10 of Interstate 81. It has two indoor rings, one outdoor ring, four wash stalls, and plenty of turnout paddocks. The barn has had numerous udpates over the past four years, such as new roofing, new siding, new floors in the stalls, new railing in both indoors.
  • The Intermont Photography Lab houses separate laboratories for black and white and color processing and printing as well as a laboratory for experimental processes and specialized techniques.
  • The Math Lab is in the Science Hall.
  • Van Dyke–Davis Alumni House is on Moore Street. It is named after Mary Van Dyke ‘44 and Mary Coomer Davis ‘47; they helped organize the donation of all the furniture, which is of the period.

Additional facilities include an outdoor amphitheater.

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