Since 1978, the student population has remained relatively small, ranging between 5,500 and 6,600 matriculated students. Patrick's day, forcing students to disband from the campus during the holiday. By 1980, after requests from the Plattsburgh Mayor and Police Chief, President Burke adjusted spring break to always include St. In 1976, Playboy Magazine named Plattsburgh as one of the top schools to be at during St. Many of the more modern buildings on campus were constructed during this time period, including the Angell College Center, Feinberg Library, and one low-rise and several high-rise dormitories. When the school became part of the SUNY system, it changed from a two-year teacher's institution to a four-year, public college.ĭuring the 1960s and 1970s, SUNY Plattsburgh, as well as the whole State University of New York system, underwent rapid growth. Plattsburgh State Normal and Training School was renamed State University of New York College at Plattsburgh when it joined the State University of New York (SUNY) system with its establishment in 1948. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Hawkins, the principal of Plattsburgh Normal School from 1898 to 1933. The new structure was completed in 1932, and in 1955 it was named Hawkins Hall in honor of George K. The new building would be in the same location and be twice as large as the old Normal Hall.
Plans were formally approved on October 10. Plans were soon approved for a new structure to replace Normal Hall.
This half-day schooling arrangement was necessary for the survival of Plattsburgh Normal School but proved to be too disruptive to public school students, and the practice was discontinued in September 1930. The longer-term solution was to share facilities with a number of the city's K-12 public schools. With an extensive shuffling of city services, classes resumed the following Wednesday at City Hall in downtown. Six children who were being given music lessons were safely lowered out the second story window by their teacher Lyndon Street. Aided by high winds and the building's well-oiled floors, the structure was engulfed in flames within a half-hour and demolished within an hour. On January 26, 1929, a fire that began in the boiler room destroyed the Plattsburgh Normal School. Holden served for only two years, from 1890 until the first graduating class in 1892. The school's first principal was Fox Holden, former Superintendent of the Plattsburgh Union Graded Schools. Plattsburgh State Normal and Training School officially opened with its first day of classes on the morning of September 3, 1890. The impressive structure, known as "Normal Hall", was constructed by Brown Brothers of Mohawk, New York, who also built the Court House in downtown Plattsburgh. This is the same location where Hawkins Hall now stands on the current campus of SUNY Plattsburgh. However, these plans were dropped in favor of a larger plot created by combining land on each side of Court Street west of Beekman Street, so that "Court Street, one of the finest residence streets in the village, leads directly to the main entrance". Plattsburgh Normal and Training School, early-1910sĪt a meeting held on June 28, 1889, it was decided the new normal school would be on land known as "the former athletic grounds", bounded on the north by Court Street, on the east by Wells Street, on the south by Brinkerhoff Street, and on the west by Beekman Street.
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