page_title: Bridgewater State University
section_title: 1924 fire
hierarchical_section_title: Bridgewater State University / History / 1924 fire
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: bridgewaterstate1901stat (find matches) Title: Bridgewater State Normal School Massachusetts&#160;: (catalogue) Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.) Subjects: State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)--Catalogs Bridgewater State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)--Catalogs Universities and colleges--Curricula--Catalogs Publisher: Wright &amp; Potter Contributing Library: Bridgewater State University Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ell supplied with water, 20 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGEWATER. heated and ventilated by the fan system, has a heat-regulatingapparatus, an electric time service, and an electric light service. Near by, in the same quadrangle, are the three residence halls,Normal Hall, Woodward Hall and Tillinghast Hall. The buildingsare ten minutes walk from the railway station, have a good locationnear the centre of the village, upon a square three acres in extent,and the view from them is attractive. Boyden Park includes six acres of land just across the street fromthe school lot. It has a beautiful pond, fine shade trees, andpleasant walks dividing it into open areas for tennis courts andother out-door sports, making an attractive place for healthful recrea-tion. Normal Grove, adjoining the park, including one-half acre, isa fine grove of chestnut trees, affording a delightful summer retreat.South Field, just across the street on the south side, includes twoacres of level ground for athletic sports. Text Appearing After Image: STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGEWATER. 21 REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. Candidates for admission must declare their intention to teach, tocomplete the course of study in the school, if possible, and to keepthe requirements of the school faithfully. Candidates for admission to any one of the normal schools musthave attained the age of seventeen years complete, if young men,and sixteen years complete, if young women&#160;; and must be free fromany disease or infirmity that would unfit them for the office ofteacher. They must present a certificate of good moral character, giveevidence of good intellectual capacity, be graduates of a high schoolwhose courses of study have been approved by the State Board ofEducation, or they must have received, to the satisfaction of theprincipal and the Board of Visitors of the school, the equivalent of agood high school education. Candidates are requested to bring the record of their standing inconduct and scholarship in the high school signed by the principal.A go Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Bridgewater State University is the largest of nine state universities in Massachusetts. Including its off-campus sites in New Bedford, Attleboro, and Cape Cod, BSU has the fourth largest campus of the 29 institutions in the Massachusetts Public Higher Education System. BSU's sports teams are called the Bears. School colors are crimson, white and black.
context_section_description: An early-morning fire on Wednesday December 10, 1924, destroyed three of the college's buildings, over half of the campus: Tillinghast Hall, the Training School, and old Woodward dormitories. The Normal School and the boiler room were saved. The fire was so large that other towns' fire departments had to be called to assist. The cause of the fire was not definitely established, but it is believed to have been either "rats or mice" gnawing in the heating ducts, or a spontaneous combustion. There were reportedly no injuries.
  The Normal School and boiler room were repaired immediately. Tillinghast Hall was rebuilt and a new Woodward dorm built. The training school was housed in a different building temporarily and later a new building was built for it exemplifying a well equipped elementary school, with a gym and playground. The total State appropriation for the Normal School repairs and rebuilding of the training school was $606,566, in addition to $86,500 from the town. The Normal Building and Tillinghast Hall were rebuilt and opened in June 1926, now renamed as Boyden Hall and Harrington Hall.
caption: The campus in 1901. Tillinghast, Woodward, and Normal were severely damaged in the 1924 fire.
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