The Pomeroy Building

ID: 4845 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Eastern Washington University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections ~ Creator: Photographer unknown ~ Date: 1920
This file appears in: The Training School

Depicted here is the Pomeroy building in 1920. When the Training School was first established in January, 1892, the Normal School was temporarily housed here.

This file appears in: The Training School

By Jonathan Succo
On March 22, 1890, the legislature of the newly minted Washington State granted Cheney the state’s first Normal School. Normal School was the designation used for a school or college whose purpose was the training of teachers. Cheney’s Normal School…