This collection documents the first school building for Springfield College, at the time the School for Christian Workers, located on the corner of Sherman and State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Included in the collection are photographs and negatives of the outside of the building dating from around 1885 to 1946. Interior shots of the building, including one of the few photographs of the gymnasium where James Naismith created basketball as well as pictures of the early library and dorm rooms in the building, are included. There is also a newspaper article that talks about the removal of the original steps and their donation to the Basketball Hall of Fame, and an article that talks about Frank Wolcott’s, Springfield College Faculty member and long-time Gymnastics Coach, retrieval of bricks from the basement of the building of which one is in this collection. There are two bricks from this retrieval within the collection. Materials, including the printed text and copies of the murals and photographs of the Monument for the creation of Basketball erected at Mason Square in the summer of 2010 and some newspaper articles on the monument, are represented in one folder. Within the folder about the original bricks are also photographs (included ones with Coach Frank Wolcott), newspaper articles, correspondence, and invitations on the dedication of the McDonald’s at Mason Square. And within the photographs are some images of the McDonalds that now sits on the site of the Original School Building. Finally there are a group of letters from alum and supporters of the school regarding donations for the furnishing of the rooms for the students from 1885-1888.