Posted: August 20, 2017 | Author: Frank Cunha III | Filed under: Architecture, More FC3 | Tags: Administratiom, American University, Architect, Architecture, Art, Artist, Artistic, Campis Planning, Campus, Campus Architect, Campus Planner, College Hall, Colonial, Construction, Design, Design and Construction, Design Build, DesignAllDayAndNight, Designer, Facility, FC3, FC3Family, Higher Ed, Higher Education, Historic, History, icon, iconic, Montclair NJ, Montclair State University, MSU, New Jersey, NJ, Normal School, Public, Research, Residence Hall, Revival, Revival Architecture, School of Music, scomm, Sketch, Sketches, spanish mission, State, State College, Student Housing |
College Hall is where the history and the future of Montclair State meet. It’s where every student’s college journey begins with Undergraduate Admissions and ends with the submission of their final audit to the Office of the Registrar for graduation.
College Hall is where it all started. Back in 1903, the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton could no longer support New Jersey’s growing need for qualified teachers by itself, so the state approved plans for a new normal school to serve northern New Jersey. (A normal school was a post-secondary school devoted to training teachers.) And in 1908, the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair admitted its first students.
College Hall’s Spanish mission-style architecture, which was adopted for other buildings on campus, was the inspiration of benefactor Edward Russ, a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education who liked buildings he saw on a trip to California. So he integrated the style into plans for College Hall, complete with red-tile roofs—a look that lives on in campus construction today.
In the beginning, College Hall housed almost everything—administrative offices, classrooms, a library and a gym. Today, it is Montclair State’s administrative hub, housing the offices of the President and the Provost, University Advancement, Admissions, the Registrar, the Graduate School and more.



Dedicated to the first president of Montclair State, Charles S. Chapin, in 1928, it is one of the original buildings of the Montclair State Normal School. This former residence hall was renovated in 1974, and again in 2009, and is now the home of the John J. Cali School of Music. The Leshowitz Recital Hall is also located in Chapin Hall.

Russ Hall was built in 1915 and served as the first residential facility of the State Normal School at Montclair, now of course known as Montclair State University. Converted at one point to an administrative building and then later renovated back to a residence hall, Russ Hall provides suite-style accommodations for approximately 100 students.

Dedicated to Allan C. Morehead, an alumnus and former professor, executive vice president and provost at Montclair State. Morehead Hall was used as a demonstration high school from 1929 to 1973. It now houses several student support services offices.



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Posted: May 21, 2011 | Author: Frank Cunha III | Filed under: Art, Isms, More FC3, Poetry | Tags: Art, Artistic, Artwork, Carl Watts, Collaboration, FC3, Images, isms, Layers, Original, Photographic, Poem, Poetry, Repost, Unique |
Night’s Illusions
It seems it is all a dream
A pleasant mishmash of confusion
I was fine when I went to sleep
Now the pictures flash like an illusion
Beauty of body very bold
Images sharp over laid in folds
Sensuous, desirable, a story told
A woman’s beauty never grows old
The gentle brush of scented hair
Color, thoughts flashing about
Warmth and excitement fill the air
How will this dream work out?
Another flash, a clashing sound
The alarm set to kill dreams
Brilliant images falling all around
Back to sleep, should I try?
Try learn the girls name?
Get up and start my day?
I suspect I’ll never be the same
Not after meeting, the girls with no name
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Posted: April 2, 2011 | Author: Frank Cunha III | Filed under: Art, Isms, More FC3, Poetry | Tags: Art, Artistic, Audrey, Audrey Bitoni, Bitoni, Carl Watts, Collaboration, FC3, Frank Cunha, Golden Eye, Graphic, Greg Hergert Stencil Background, He, isms, Original, Photo Art, Photographic, Poem, Poetry, She, Special, Time to Celebrate, Unique |

Looking Back
We had met over space and time
Meeting as life does in it’s rhythm of rhyme
I didn’t know him at first
He wouldn’t stop, expressing a thirst
Something about him drew him to me
It was like he was looking right straight through me
Seven thousand miles and a million years
As I look back in my memory, I remember tears
It was a love that wasn’t meant to be
The kind of love only expressed by strong affinity
Still I feel I can see him behind me
Slowly walking up to touch me
I shiver with thrill
Until I remember it isn’t real
But the pictures is clear
In my heart, he will always be near.
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