Jose Muldoon's

222 N. Tejon St

Site of the first CC classroom building. As Historian J. Juan Reid noted, during the summer of 1874, the CC Board of Trustees borrowed $1,550 to build a three-room wooden structure adjoining the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and across the street from North Park, later known as Acacia Park. The small wooden building contained three classrooms, a cloak room, thirty desks, a large bookcase, and lamps to be used, “in the early morning.” On Wednesday, September 9, the college division with twelve students opened in the new schoolhouse with Jonathan Edwards and Solon T. French as instructors. While the church next door accommodated student assemblies, the park across the street functioned as an exercise field for students who wanted to “play ball.”