St. Edward's Hall (University of Notre Dame)

St. Edward's Hall
University University of Notre Dame
Campus quad God
Established 1929, built 1882
Colors Green and Gold          
Gender Male
Rector Rev. Ralph Haag, C.S.C.
Undergraduates 161
Chapel St. Edward the Confessor
Mascot Gentlemen
Interhall sports Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Cross Country, Dodgeball, Football, Golf, Hockey, Lacrosse, Racquetball, Soccer, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball
Charities Lakeview High School, Jinga, Uganda
Major events Founder's Week, Yacht Dance, Mullets Against Malaria
Website

steds.nd.edu

St. Edward's Hall
Location Notre Dame, Indiana
Coordinates 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′17.4516″W / 41.702299000°N 86.238181000°W / 41.702299000; -86.238181000Coordinates: 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′17.4516″W / 41.702299000°N 86.238181000°W / 41.702299000; -86.238181000
Built 1882 [1]
Architect Father Edward Sorin and Brother Charles Harding [1]
Architectural style Collegiate Gothic
Part of University of Notre Dame: Main and North Quadrangles (#78000053)
Added to NRHP May 23, 1978

St. Edward's Hall is one of the thirty undergraduate residence halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of fifteen male dormitories. Saint Edward's Hall is located directly east of the Main Administration Building and is directly west of Zahm Hall. Saint Edward's Hall (also referred to as "St. Ed's") houses 162 undergraduate students. It is, together with other historical structures of the university, on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]

History

Saint Edward's Hall was built in 1882 as a boarding school.[3] In 1925, Knute Rockne received his First Holy Communion in the Chapel of Saint Edward the Confessor.[4] In 1929, it was converted into an undergraduate residence hall and has since housed undergraduate males, making it the oldest University building used as a residence hall. In the summer of 1981, the third and fourth floors of the building caught fire and were heavily damaged but have since been rebuilt.

St. Edward's statue

Saint Edward's Hall's signature annual event is Founder's Day and Founder's Week. It is celebrated during the week of October 13 and it includes a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, historical lectures, talent show, and a special dormitory Mass. There is also an annual Spring excursion to Chicago, the Yacht Dance, in which the Gentlemen take part in a dance aboard a chartered yacht. St. Ed's main dorm rivalry is with Zahm Hall.

Distinguishing features

The Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor contains eight stained glass windows depicting various saints, Saint Edward among them, which date to the early 1900s. The same French company also completed a large stained glass portrait of the University's founder Father Edward Sorin, which is found in the central stairwell. In addition, St. Edward's second floor also boasts a mural by the famous Vatican muralist Luigi Gregori, whose work also adorns the Main Building, and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (and whose paintings were large for no reason other than that he possessed only large paint brushes, having left the smaller ones in Rome). The mural depicts a meeting between Father Sorin and the local Native Americans at the founding of the University in 1842. The residence hall is the oldest building on campus currently in use as an undergraduate dormitory, and its original wing is constructed of the signature yellow bricks dredged by Holy Cross religious from the marl found in the University's two lakes.

Rector

Fr. Ralph Haag, C.S.C., is the current rector of Saint Edward's Hall. Fr. Haag graduated from Creighton University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, and he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 with a Master of Divinity degree. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 2004, and he was the associate pastor of Saint Gregory the Great Parish in Phoenix, Arizona, for three years before becoming the rector of Saint Edward's Hall in 2006. Fr. Haag is Director of Latino Ministry at the University of Notre Dame. He is also Associate Director of the Congregation of Holy Cross Vocations Program. Currently he works in the Office of Development.

Stained Glass Windows in St. Edward's Hall
St Edward
St Edward 
St Andrew
St Andrew 
Young Christ
Young Christ 
Mary
Mary 
Jesus
Jesus 
St Joseph
St Joseph 
St Louis
St Louis 
St John
St John 

Notable residents

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Official Building Inventory" (PDF). Facilities Design and Operations. University of Notre Dame. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "University of Notre Dame Campus-Main and South Quadrangles" (PDF). National Register Of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form. U.S. Department of the Interior. November 1976. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Hope, CSC, Arthur J. "Notre Dame: St. Edward's Hall". Notre Dame One Hundred Years. University of Notre Dame Archives. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  4. ↑ McMahon, John. "The Day the Rock was Baptized at the Log Chapel". The Spirit of Notre Dame. Dorothy V. Corson. Retrieved 15 May 2014.

References

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