President's house or Burlingame House

Interesting, a professor emailed asking about the Burlingame House, saying that he knew someone once whose wife's family had lived there. I answered as follows:

...that is interesting about your friend's connection to the Burlingame House, now the president's house. Below is a link to a digitized edition of an old book from 1940; on p80 there is a piece about the house. Herman Burlingame, whose name denotes the house nowadays, was a professor of mathematics like you and served here at the college c1868-1890. 

https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/local_books/2/

   I am also attaching an article from the Stylus of 1969 that gives some background. The timeline is that for many years the principal, as the head of the school was called then, lived in an apartment in the building (the predecessor building to Hartwell Hall.) Then c1890 the school bought the Harrison House, now Alumni House, and the head of the school lived there up through President Tower's time. When he retired in 1964, the building was converted from a dwelling place into a sort of office space/faculty lounge.

   President Brown at first lived in a home he purchased himself, and then in 1969 the college bought the Burlingame place on Holley Street. At the time the thought was that that was temporary, and a new house would be built on the outskirts of the village, but in the end the Burlingame House remained the home of the president until this day.