The California State Normal School was a teaching college that was founded on May 2, 1862 in San Jose. In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the school to be built in downtown Los Angeles, which would train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. On August 29, 1882, the State Normal School at Los Angeles opened its doors. In 1919, the Los Angeles State Normal School became part of the "UC system" and was absorbed into UCLA, moving to a larger campus on Vermont Avenue in Hollywood (the present site of L.A. City College). The L.A. Public Library would take the old Normal School site, which was located on 5th Street between Grand and Flower streets.; The ivy-covered Beaux-Arts style building with the flared polygonal dome is Millspaugh Hall, the Administration building of the University of California, Southern Branch, located at 855 N. Vermont Ave. The cornerstone for this structure was laid on November 18, 1913; in September 1914, the school began its sessions in the new building. Millspaugh Hall was the center of student and administrative activity and occasionally an outdoor assembly area. The University of California, Southern Branch campus was laid out along a central axis, with the fine arts, domestic science, and library buildings facing the gymnasium, science building and teacher training school; the administration building (Millspaugh Hall) sat at the head of the group. The University of California, Southern Branch would eventually come to be known as the University of California, Los Angeles - or UCLA for short. Thomas Edison visits the Los Angeles State Normal School in East Hollywood. To Edison's left is the school's president, Jesse H. Millspaugh.
Edison, Thomas A.--(Thomas Alva),--1847-1931 State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.) Teachers colleges--California--Los Angeles Inventors--United States Eclecticism in architecture--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Group portraits East Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Allison & Allison
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