The campus of Bloomsburg University has gone through numerous changes since its structural beginnings in 1866. It was during that year when the Board of Trustees decided to buy three acres of land and elected Henry Carver as the principal of the Institute, according to BU Archivist Robert Dunkelberger. Carver was instructed to design the first building; Institute Hall, and a dormitory for what became a school for teacher training, established as the Bloomsburg State Normal School in 1869.
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