 The school was incorporated in March, 1851, as the Milwaukee Normal Institute and High School, and moved to new quarters.In 1852, through the influence of Beecher, $17,894 was received from her friends in the East and the American Woman's Educational Association; Milwaukeeans raised another $13,540; and a permanent home for the school was commissioned on the corner of Juneau Avenue and Milwaukee Street (near the site later to be occupied by the Milwaukee School of Engineering).The school opened there in the fall of 1852, though the building was not yet finished.