The Buildings of Central Michigan University
Training School Building
Opened August 31, 1902
Destroyed by fire January 9, 1933
Cost: $45,000
The original Training School Building, where teacher education students worked with the children of Mount Pleasant citizens and Central faculty, was located on the present site of Smith Hall, which was built as a replacement for the building that burned on January 9, 1933. It housed a kindergarten and nine grades as well as the manual arts department of the college. When it burned in 1933, over five thousand books were destroyed with it.