The New York State Normal School, 1844-1890, and its successor,
the New York State Normal College, 1890-1914, occupied a
succession of single building homes before moving to the Downtown
(Western Avenue) Campus in the fall of 1909. Before the Normal
School was given permanent funding and the funds to construct a
permanent building in 1849, it was temporarily housed in
the State Street Building. In the fall of 1849, the School
occupied its first permanent building located on the northwest
corner of Lodge & Howard Streets. When the Lodge & Howard
Street Building proved inadequate to the needs of the School, the
State financed the construction of the Willett Street Building,
occupied from 1885 until it burned in 1906. Between 1906 and 1909
the State Normal College was housed at a number of local
churches.