Normal Hall and Normal School Building, Bridgewater, Mass.

Normal Hall and Normal School Building, Bridgewater, Mass.

Item Information

Title:
Normal Hall and Normal School Building, Bridgewater, Mass.
Description:
The main campus buildings of the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Name on Item:
[photographed by] T. Lewis
Date:
[ca. 1876]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Stereographs
Location:
Bridgewater State University, Maxwell Library
Archives & Special Collections
Collection (local):
Stereoscopic Scenery Cards
Subjects:
Teachers colleges
Educational facilities
State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)
Places:
Massachusetts > Plymouth (county) > Bridgewater
Extent:
1 stereograph (photographic print) : b&w ; mount 9 x 18 cm.
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Notes:
The main campus buildings of the State Normal School at Bridgewater were the boarding hall, Normal Hall, and the classroom building, the Normal School Building. In 1866 the Massachusetts Board of Education described the design of the school as follows: "The design of the Normal School is strictly professional; that is, to prepare, in the best possible manner, the pupils for the work of organizing, governing, and teaching the public schools of the Commonwealth. To this end, there must be the most thorough knowledge; first of the branches of learning required to be taught in the schools; second, of the best methods of teaching those branches; and third, of right mental training. The time of the course extends through a period of two years, and is divided into terms of twenty weeks each, with daily sessions of not less than five days each week."
Identifier:
VMC013-017