{"id":6470,"date":"2025-04-11T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2025-04-11T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:00:30","slug":"from-normal-school-to-now-a-walk-through-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/2025\/04\/11\/from-normal-school-to-now-a-walk-through-history\/","title":{"rendered":"From Normal School to Now: A Walk Through History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, Montclair State University Archivist Paul Martinez took a group of students, faculty, and staff on a 45-minute historic stroll through the south side of campus. Along the way, attendees uncovered the fascinating backstories behind the buildings\u2014why and when they were built\u2014and got to hear some quirky quips about the students who once roamed these grounds back when it was The New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair and Montclair State Teachers College.<\/p>\n<p>We asked student Ashley Colombo, sophomore and product design major, what her favorite part of the tour was.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My favorite part of the tour was seeing how the architecture has either stayed the same [over the years] or how the buildings were renovated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Want to join the fun? Keep an eye out for future tours with Paul\u2014you won\u2019t want to miss them!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/tour-1.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/tour-1.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"archivist paul martinez pointing to cole hall\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/tour-3.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/tour-3.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"group standing in from of morehead hall with two people viewing a binder\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/tour-4.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/tour-4.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"man looking at image of russ hall from 1920\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, Montclair State University Archivist Paul Martinez took a group of students, faculty, and staff on a 45-minute historic stroll through the south side of campus. Along the way, attendees uncovered the fascinating backstories behind the buildings\u2014why and when they were built\u2014and got to hear some quirky quips about the students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":6472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6477,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}