Every campus has a first building. Middle Tennessee State University's has been standing at the head of the quad since 1911, when a new state normal school opened east of downtown Murfreesboro with 125 students and a hundred acres of Rutherford County farmland. On Tuesday, after more than two years behind construction fence, the university took the wrapping off it. Kirksey Old Main reopened Aug. 18, the centerpiece of a $54.3 million project tha…
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