Thirty years after the first feat, the Berlin Wall came down once again — this time on the campus of Skidmore College.

"I wanted them to experience it first hand, how walls create division on campus even," said Skidmore College Professor Petra Watzke.

Watzke, who teaches German studies, said she was six years old when she experienced the power barriers had over people's lives.

“I lived in the south of Germany on the west side and but we had family in East Germany,” Watzke said.

And the wall made contacting her family nearly impossible until it came down. Her students say it’s the unseen walls that impede communication in this decade.

“Barriers prevent each [of us] from relating to one another and forming relationships, or they get rid of relationships that were there before," said student Eleyna Scarbro.

It took students and faculty two weeks to build the 28-foot wall and only minutes to deconstruct it, but they say bridging the divides our nation faces may take more work.

“The walls and people's heads are so much harder to access," Scarbro said.

"There’s always some kind of prejudices and if something has been divided for a long time it takes time for it to come together,” Watzke said.

They hope in removing these walls they remove barriers to relationships.

“The message I wanted to send is we can overcome it and work together to make things better. Walls will fall but we will keep standing," Watzke said.