Indiana State Normal School was built in 1865 and opened in 1870. Normal School was created to train high school graduates to become teachers; while establishing standards or norms teaching.
Indiana State Normal School changed names is 1929 to the Indiana State Teachers College. Thirty-two years later they renamed the school to Indiana State College because they started offering more degrees other than teaching degrees. Four years after that the school was named Indiana State University to further expand their growing community.
Indiana State Normal School was destroyed by a fire on April 8, 1888. The fire was reported around 8:30 am and there were about 600 people inside the building at the time, due to classes just starting that day. The fire was very rampant destroying nearly everything in the building. The only pieces that were recovered were 13 microscopes, 3 physics pieces and a couple library books. There was only one day of classes missed because the community came together and allowed them in to their businesses to hold class. The community also gave money to help rebuild the damaged property.
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