[Click here to see our historic photo archives.] On April 26, 1956, Western New England College, located in downtown Springfield, purchased 34 acres of land—the old Ingalls Farm—on Wilbraham Road in Springfield’s Sixteen Acres neighborhood for $70,000. This is what the land looked like for years before Emerson Hall, the first building on the new campus, was built in 1959. (Read More)
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