Miss Van Liew, Head Of The Home Economics Department, Begins A Practice House For Home Economics Students
1916 Fall
Miss Van Liew, head of the Home Economics Department, begins a Practice House for home economics students at 429 Washington Avenue. The house was rewired and replumbed by the men in the Industrial Class. Senior women would live in the Practice House for three weeks on a rotating basis. The first college sponsored housing for women. Van Liew would later open the first real dormitory, Sydum Hall, in 1918. The Practice House apparently continued to exist until 1932 when the Home Economics Department was moved to the recently renamed New York State College for Teachers at Buffalo.
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"State College Pupils Learn Home-Making in Practice House," Knickerbocker Press, May 13, 1917, pp. 1 & 3 with photos. Alumni Memorabila Collection; "A Junior High School at State," Alumni Quarterly, April 1929, p. 16