Campus fire - “The Cottage” (Old Woodward Hall) in flames, December 10, 1924

Title:: Campus fire - “The Cottage” (Old Woodward Hall) in flames, December 10, 1924
Description:: Crowds watch the fire destroying the wooden dormitory building "The Cottage" and the brick dormitory Tillinghast Hall.
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 ; 7 x 12 cm.
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Notes:: The fire quickly consumed "The Cottage", a wooden building also known as old Woodward Hall, originally built in 1881 as the Science Annex. At the time of the fire, "The Cottage" was used as a small dormitory that housed students and some female faculty members.
Notes (exhibitions):: Digital item is part of “$1,000,000 Blaze at Bridgewater”: A Campus Transformed
Identifier:: VMC003-1023