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"Members of the student body...march up a dirt path through the weeds to Taylor Hall. Known as North Hall when another building was completed to the south to house Gunnison High School and later college classrooms and administrative offices, Taylor Hall was completed by linking the two buildings in 1927." -- Marty Hatcher notes
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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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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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In 1918 funds were raised by Gunnison County, and in 1919 Gunnison High School was built south of the existing Normal School building. A "basement" connecting the two buildings was soon built, but a completed "Central Hall" would not become a reality until 1930.
The wire fence was an attempt to keep open range cattle off campus grounds. (Note the grazing bovines on the left in the photo.)
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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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"Two cheerful coeds brave the runoff that drained the rodeo grounds every spring. It's 1920, and the central portion of Taylor Hall [Central Hall] is under construction. Fences have been built, trees planted, and a single paved sidewalk connects the campus with downtown Gunnison." -- M. Hatcher notes