page_title: Roanoke College
section_title: College Avenue – Main Street
hierarchical_section_title: Roanoke College / Campus / College Avenue – Main Street
caption_attribution_description: English: Salem Post Office This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 92001265
context_page_description: Roanoke College is a private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. It has approximately 2,000 students who represent approximately 40 states and 30 countries. The college offers 35 majors, 57 minors and concentrations, and pre-professional programs. Roanoke awards bachelor's degrees in arts, science, and business administration and is one of 280 colleges with a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
  Roanoke is an NCAA Division III school competing in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. The college fields varsity teams in nine men's and ten women's sports. Roanoke's athletic nickname is Maroons and the mascot is Rooney, a maroon-tailed hawk.
context_section_description: Roanoke acquired three office buildings on College Avenue across from West Hall in 2005–06.  The buildings have been renovated to provide classroom and office space for various college departments. With the acquisitions, the Roanoke campus occupies both sides of College Avenue from Main Street north to the traditional campus entrance.
  In 2013, Roanoke purchased two Main Street buildings:  the Bank Building, located on the corner of College Avenue and Main Street across from West Hall, and the Old Salem Post Office, located on the corner of Main and Market Streets.  Roanoke had leased the bank building for several years preceding the purchase and will continue to use it for academic purposes.  The post office building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the seventh building on the Roanoke campus listed on the national register; it will be renovated for academic use.
caption: The Old Salem Post Office Building, one of seven college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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