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To the right is the front entrance of the brick Normal School Building in flames. To the left is the northwest corner of Normal Hall, an administration building that opened in 1917. Normal Hall was spared from destruction through the heroic efforts of firefighters who blanketed the building in sheets of water.
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Digital item is part of “$1,000,000 Blaze at Bridgewater”: A Campus Transformed