University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AS IT LOOKED IN 1886 XVHEN PRES. SEERLEY Toox CHARGE OF IT IOVVA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 1891 SHOYVING SOUTH HALL, NORTH HALL, SUPTYS. HOUSE AND PRESIDENT,S COTTAGE

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NORTH HALL 1876 f . THE ORIGINAL IOXVA srm-E NORMAL scnooi. - THE ORIGINAL STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, 1876 The building shown here and the brick house to the rear, which is now Mr. Robin- son's home, were built originally for an orphan's home, and used as such for a number of years. When the state founded a Normal school here in 1876, the brick house was con- verted into a men's dormitory, accommodating from twenty-Five to thirty men. The girls roomed in the main building on the second and third floors. There were a few single rooms, but most of the girls lived in what were known as section rooms, accommodating eight per- sons. The beds and dressers were partitioned off at one end, the main part ofx the room then being comfortably furnished with tables, chairs and what nick-nacks the girls might wish to add. The recitation rooms were the two east ones on the second floor and all those on first, except the one now occupied by Prof. Rob. Fullerton, which with nicely carpeted Hoor, a hair-cloth parlor suite, a square piano, and some pictures was known as the reception room. The present carpenter room was the kitchen, and the room in which Prof, Hammock now holds forth was the big dining room, where three times a day the sixty to eighty students met to discuss oatmeal porridge, roast beef, or 'ihair oil pudding. Though these students of long ago are out in the business or professional world now, if you listen, you can some- times hear them tell of the mysterious disappearance of a case of canned fruit, or the failure of the bell to ring at the required time-due to the fact that the clapper had gone away visiting. G

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