Cheney Junior High School

ID: 4846 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Eastern Washington University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections ~ Creator: Photographer unknown ~ Date: 1923
This file appears in: The Training School

The Training School and Normal School resided in this building from 1893 to the fall of 1896. The Training School operated on the first floor and Normal School operations were conducted on the second floor.

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…