Campus fire - Normal School Building in flames, December 10, 1924

Title:: Campus fire - Normal School Building in flames, December 10, 1924
Description:: View of the exterior west side of the Normal School Building on the Bridgewater State Normal School campus engulfed in flames.
Date:: 1924
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: Bridgewater State University, Maxwell Library
Archives & Special Collections
Collection (local):: Bridgewater State University Historical Photographs
Subjects:: Teachers colleges
Educational facilities
Fires
State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Plymouth (county) > Bridgewater
Extent:: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 14 x 21 cm.
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Notes:: In the early morning of December 10, 1924, a devastating fire broke out on the campus of Bridgewater State Normal School. The fire began in the basement of the main academic building, the brick Normal School Building. Two-thirds of the campus was destroyed. According to a later account by School principal Arthur Clarke Boyden, "… the night watchman, while making his last round, discovered fire behind the ceiling of the old gymnasium on the basement floor of the main building. He immediately gave the alarm on the steam whistle of the school, at the same time sending one of the boiler tenders to pull the public fire alarm. As the fire was very difficult to reach with hose streams, it soon spread out of control, and, breaking through the open stairway, went quickly to the roof. In a short time a considerable part of the building was a seething mass of flames."
Notes (exhibitions):: Digital item is part of “$1,000,000 Blaze at Bridgewater”: A Campus Transformed
Identifier:: VMC003-749