
SUNY on the Wallkill: A Walking Tour of Early SUNY New Paltz
By Christopher Raab

New Paltz Classical School - Plaque identifying the first Classical School - 1828
(Stones from the first church on Huguenot St. were used to construct the first floor.)

New Paltz Classical School - Established on 2nd floor of 15 N. Front St. - 1828
(viewed from across the street in 1984 photograph)

New Paltz Academy - Village map featuring the New Paltz Academy on the Wallkill River
(from the Beers' Ulster County Atlas - 1875)

New Paltz Academy - Lithograph from the Beers' Ulster County Atlas - 1875
(view from across the Wallkill looking South East)

Photo of the New Paltz Academy after 1840
(view from across the Wallkill looking East)

New Paltz Academy after the fire of 1884
(view looking North along Huguenot Street)

New Paltz Academy Board of Trustees - 1885
(Ralph LeFevre, Chairman of the Board - seated far right)

The New Academy - Renovated and accepted as New Paltz Normal - 1885
(view from across the Wallkill looking North East)

Village of New Paltz showing the location of New Paltz Normal - Fire Insurance Maps - 1890

Normal School Addition - North Wing - Built 1887
(view from across the Wallkill looking South East)

New Paltz Normal destroyed after Easter weekend fire - April 1906
(view looking North)

New Paltz Normal - Rebuilt on present day SUNY New Paltz campus - 1907
(view looking South West from Plattekill Avenue)

Back of the New Paltz Normal School - 1907
(view looking South East)
Postcard images courtesy of the SUNY New Paltz Postcard Collection and Dennis O'Keefe.