Potsdam: St. Lawrence Academy, North and South Buildings, surrounding the Presbyterian Church, about 1858.  The Presbyterian Church was persuaded to move across the street to the corner of Elm Street & Lawrence Avenue. The three buildings were then reconfigured to form  the new, in 1867, State Normal & Training School.  The old church became the new auditorium/chapel.  Potsdam's elementary school and high school were also housed in these buildings, until the new practice school, later the Congdon Campus School, was dedicated in 1931.