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Elizabeth Wadsworth Nursing Home
No full textThe Elizabeth Wadsworth Nursing Home, located at 32 North Street, was purchased, equipped, and staffed by Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth and served as the College\u27s first Infirmary from 1915 through the 1950\u27s. The building is now a student rental property.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-infirmary/1005/thumbnail.jp
Blake Hall
No full textDuring 1950-1951 the four residence halls (Bailey, Fraser, Blake, and Sturges) accommodated 204 women students and the College Center, with dining room, snack bar, lounge, post office and browsing and game rooms were occupied. Anne S. Blake began as a substitute kindergarten teacher in 1917, then head of the kindergarten department, then dean of women from 1921. She retired in 1934. The formal Blake Lounge was named for her. Blake A - E, Sturges, and Fraser Halls were given their present names in 1965.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-blake/1011/thumbnail.jp
Construction of Bailey Hall, SUNY Geneseo
No full textPhotograph of the Guy A. Bailey Science Building construction and early excavation. During 1950-1951 the four residence halls (Bailey, Fraser, Blake, and Sturges) accommodated 204 women students and the College Center, with dining room, snack bar, lounge, post office and browsing and game rooms were occupied. Blake is named for George (Guy) A. Bailey, an international authority on birds. Was affectionatly known to the students as Bugs Bailey. Mr. Bailey graduated from the Cortland Normal in the classical course in the year 1898.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-bailey/1013/thumbnail.jp
Blake Hall
No full textDuring 1950-1951 the four residence halls (Bailey, Fraser, Blake, and Sturges) accommodated 204 women students and the College Center, with dining room, snack bar, lounge, post office and browsing and game rooms were occupied. Anne S. Blake began as a substitute kindergarten teacher in 1917, then head of the kindergarten department, then dean of women from 1921. She retired in 1934. The formal Blake Lounge was named for her. Blake A - E, Sturges, and Fraser Halls were given their present names in 1965.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-blake/1013/thumbnail.jp
Brodie Fine Arts Building, north east face
No full textConstructed in 1967, the Brodie Fine Arts building is named in honor of William A. Brodie, a Geneseo attorney whose clients included various members of the Wadsworth family. Brodie was one of several local leaders whose efforts were instrumental in getting a Normal School located in Geneseo. The Fine Arts Building (later named Brodie) was formally dedicated in May 1968. It was designed by architect Edgar Tafel, one-time apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-brodie/1002/thumbnail.jp
Brodie Fine Arts Building
No full textConstructed in 1967, the Brodie Fine Arts building is named in honor of William A. Brodie, a Geneseo attorney whose clients included various members of the Wadsworth family. Brodie was one of several local leaders whose efforts were instrumental in getting a Normal School located in Geneseo. The Fine Arts Building (later named Brodie) was formally dedicated in May 1968. It was designed by architect Edgar Tafel, one-time apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/cap-brodie/1020/thumbnail.jp
