Normal Hall--Western State Colorado University.
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Believed to be the first Colorado State Normal School (now Western Colorado University) commencement, 1916. Tent is set up on the southwest lawn of Taylor Hall.
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Colorado State Normal School students clear the path to Normal Hall, winter 1912.
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View of Normal Hall (now Taylor Hall) from the west, 1911.
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Site of Colorado State Normal School's commencement, 1916, southwest of Taylor Hall.
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The auditorium on the north end of Normal Hall (now Taylor Hall) is set up for commencement exercises for the first graduating class of Colorado State Normal School, May 30, 1912. The mural on the wall was painted by CSNS art professor Henry L. Richter. It now hangs in the circulation desk area in Leslie J. Savage Library.
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Art Studio, Colorado State Normal School, Normal Hall (Taylor Hall), ca. 1912. Henry L. Richter was the instructor, standing. He painted the mural behind him which was discovered in storage in Quigley Hall and now hangs in the circulation area of the Leslie J. Savage Library. The plaster cast of a Greek boy which these students are sketching was still used by the college in 1949.
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The science room/chemistry room in North Hall (now Taylor Hall), circa early 1920s.
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Twin coal stoves were the focal point of the Domestic Science room located in the northeast corner of the second floor of Normal Hall (Taylor Hall), circa 1913. The Home Economics program was discontinued at the college after the retirement of Anna Streckelberg in about 1956. Ms. Streckelberg insisted on coal stoves because her typical student would spend her life cooking on a ranch.
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The Industrial Arts department classroom in Normal Hall [Taylor Hall] circa 1912.
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Laying of the Normal Hall (Taylor Hall) cornerstone by the Grand Masonic Lodge, October 25, 1910. This is the earliest known photograph of Colorado State Normal School, later renamed Western State College, and now Western Colorado University.
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View of Normal Hall (Taylor Hall) from the southwest, circa 1915. Note the new trees that have been planted along the walkway/driveway leading from town to the building.
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View of Normal Hall (Taylor Hall) from the south-southwest circa 1912.
[Temple of Wisdom
The above picture of North Hall was taken in 1912 and conveys some idea of the prominence of the building to the city of Gunnison. With no tree around it, and standing on the Smelter Hill above the City of Gunnison, the building resembled some ancient structure erected inhonor of the goddess of Wisdom. the four ionic columns add to the splender [sic]. Even...
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View of Normal Hall (later North Hall, then Taylor Hall) from the west-southwest circa 1917. Note the newly planted cottonwood trees in the foreground.
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View of North Hall, Gunnison County High School (later South Hall) and the first floor of Central Hall from the west, circa 1923. Central Hall began as a basement linking the two buildings; in 1923 the tar paper roof over the section "had become badly torn, and the college did not have funds [$1,000] for the repair..." --Abbott Fay, "Mountain Academia".
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West portico of North Hall (later Taylor Hall) looking north along the building, circa 1925.
Note a few of the Highland Village buildings to the northeast, the first of which were built in 1922.
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An iconic mural painted by Henry Richter hangs in a classroom/auditorium in what is likely North Hall (Taylor Hall), circa 1920s.
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Colorado State Normal School students pose for their class photograph outside North Hall (now Taylor Hall) 1922-1923.
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Colorado State Normal School Elementary Normal and Gunnison High School students and faculty in 1911.
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The Colorado State Normal School Band poses for a photograph on the west stairs of Normal Hall (now Taylor Hall), 1914. Professor John C. Johnson is front row right, holding his cornet.
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Colorado State Normal School faculty and students pose for a group photograph on the west side of Normal Hall (now Taylor Hall) Spring, 1919.
