The campus of the University of Notre Dame is located in Notre Dame, Indiana, and spans comprising around 190 buildings. It is particularly noted for the Golden Dome, the Basilica and its stained glass windows, the quads and the greenery, the Grotto, Touchdown Jesus, its collegiate Gothic architecture, and its statues and museums. Notre Dame is a major tourist attraction in northern Indiana; in the 2015–2016 academic year, more than 1.8 million visitors, almost half of whom were from outside of St. Joseph County, visited the campus.
When the university was founded in 1842, the only building on site was the Log Chapel, which had been built in 1831. Under the guidance of the founder and first president Edward Sorin, Old College and the first church and main building were built. The second main building, which constituted almost the entirety of the university facilities, burnt down in 1879, and was followed by the current Main Building. The campus has continued to grow ever since. The architectural style of the first building was an eclectic mix of 19th French and Victorian architecture, with collegiate gothic taking over at the beginning of the 20th century with architects such as Kervick and Fagan and Maginnis & Walsh. The latter half of the 20th century saw the use of modernist designs, but since the mid-1990s, the university recommitted to the gothic architecture keeping the specific materials and forms of the older parts of campus. Many of the older structures were placed in 1973 on the National Register of Historic Places.
The center of campus is the Main Quad, often called the God Quad, which hosts the Main Building and the Basilica, and other important buildings and residence halls. The North-West area of campus is mainly dedicated to residential buildings, the Central-East portion of campus is dedicated to academic spaces, while the South-East is dedicated to athletics. Apart from the Main Quad, there are seven additional quadrangles: North Quad, Mod Quad, and West Quad (mainly residential), South Quad, East Quad, and Bond Quad (mixed residential and academic), and DeBartolo Quad (only academic).
Surroundings
The University of Notre Dame is mostly located in Notre Dame, Indiana, a census designated place in St. Joseph County, near South Bend and Mishawaka, in the Michiana region. Pieces of the university property are in the South Bend city limits. - Campus map The university is south of the Indiana-Michigan border, and it is served by exit 77 of the Indiana Toll Road, which is concurrent with Interstate 90 and Interstate 80.
The campus has two lakes, which provide its name (Notre Dame du lac meaning "Our Lady of the Lake"): St. Mary's Lake and St. Joseph's Lake. St. Joseph's Lake has a small beach and pier for swimming and a boating facility for student use. There have been speculations regarding the fact that the name of the university references a single lake instead of two.
Eddy Street Commons Eddy Street Commons is a mixed-use development that opened in the summer of 2009. It hosts venues, businesses, services, and apartment complexes that make it a small college town for the university. Phase 2 of construction, a $150 million development, will include more than 400 apartments, of retail, a new Robinson Community Learning Center, and a new Embassy Suites hotel.
Cemeteries The university campus is home to two cemeteries, one reserved for members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and the other open to the general public. Cedar Grove Cemetery was established in 1843 by Rev. Edward Sorin, soon after he founded the university. Notable burials include Dave Duerson, Arthur Erich Haas, Leon Hart, Joe Kernan, Moose Krause, Ray Lemek, Ralph McInerny, Ara Parseghian, Regis Philbin, Jim Seymour, Timothy E. Howard and Lucius G. Tong
Holy Cross Cemetery is reserved for members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, which founded the university. All burials are identical and composed by a simple stone cross with the name of the deceased and dates of birth and death. Burials include Rev. Edward Sorin, Rev. William Corby, Fr. John Zahm, and Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. All but one of Notre Dame's fourteen deceased presidents are buried in the community cemetery. The exception is Cardinal John O'Hara, CSC, the order's first cardinal, who is entombed inside the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus. Professor Joseph Lyons, namesake of Lyons Hall, was the first case of a layman being buried there. In 1892, a monument was erected on his tomb, consisting of a granite obelisk with the words "Erected to his memory as a tribute of the affection of the old students." and "He was always the same-kind and gentle, sincere and self-sacrificing." A statue of Our Lady of Sorrows by Robert Graham is found in the mausoleum.
Buildings The Notre Dame campus is composed of around 190 buildings, divided into Quads. Main Quad is at the center, North Quad and Mod Quad are at the north, while South, West and DeBartolo Quads are in the south.
Administration
The Main Building houses various offices, including the Office of the President and admissions. It was built in 1879, after the previous main building, built in 1865, was destroyed by a fire. Construction started May 17 and was finished by the start of the following academic year. The architect was the American Willoughby J. Edbrooke, principally devoted to the Romanesque style, that is reflected in the design of the building itself. Fifty-six bricklayers and 4.35 million bricks were necessary to complete it, and once finished it stood tall. The building also houses the Columbus murals, a group of large paintings by Italian painter and Notre Dame professor Luigi Gregori, depicting the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. Gregori also painted with figures representing Religion, Philosophy, Science, History, Fame, Poetry and Music the interior of the Golden Dome, the university's most recognizable landmark. It was gilded in gold in 1886 and crowned with a tall statue of "Our Mother", the namesake of the university. The statue was designed and furnished by the female students of the nearby St. Mary's College, and it is a replica of the statue of Mary in Piazza di Spagna in Rome, erected by Pius IX.
Flanner Hall and Grace Hall are two 11-story-high buildings that were initially part of a planned complex of five high-rise buildings, yet were the only two to be actually constructed. They were male residence halls until 1997, when the residents of Grace were moved to newly created Keough and O'Neill Halls, and 1998, when the residents of Flanner were moved to Siegfried and Knott Halls. The offices housed in these two buildings include the Career Center and Card services, and many other offices of administration. Flanner Hall also houses a chapel dedicated to Saint Andre Bessette, CSC, the first saint of the Congregation of the Holy Cross. A "#1" neon sign is placed atop of Grace Hall, and lit whenever a Fighting Irish team is ranked No. 1.
Located on the South Quad across from the dining hall, the Coleman-Morse Center was built in 2001 and serves mainly administrative purposes, although there are seven classrooms and prayer spaces. It includes the offices of Campus Ministry, the University Writing Program, the Center for Student Support and Care, and Academic Services for Student-Athletes. The main hall features a Kugel Fountain, which contains a 13,000 pound granite ball. It was built on the previous site of the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore.
Carole Sandner Hall was named after Carole Sandner, mother of seven foster children, from Lake Bluff, Illinois, after being donated as a gift from her husband. It replaces the previous convent of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.University of Notre Dame names academic building after Lake Bluff woman triblocal.com The building cost $11.5 million, and houses the Alliance for Catholic Education, a two-year service program that prepares college students to teach in under-resourced Catholic K-12 schools. The program was founded in 1993 by Fathers Timothy Scully and Sean McGraw and serves dioceses in need all over the country by providing education to lower income families. The building is environmentally friendly and was awarded the LEED Gold certification. It encloses a cloister garden that recalls the former convent of the Holy Cross novitiate.
University Health Services is hosted in Saint Liam Hall. The first University infirmary was destroyed in the great fire of 1879, and rebuilt the same year in the same spot behind Main Building. This structure survived until 1936, when it was razed to build the current structure. The present hall was built as the Notre Dame Student Infirmary in the spring of 1936, and designed by the Boston architecture firm of Maginnis and Walsh in the Collegiate-Gothic style structure.Notre Dame Scholastic volume 69 Issue 23 archives.nd.eduNotre Dame Scholastic volume 14 Issue 9 archives.nd.edu Construction started 27 May 1935 and the building was finished 14 April 1936. The infirmary, the largest of its kind in the country, contained 100 rooms, including five wards and twenty-four private rooms that could accommodate 125 patients. The Sisters of the Holy Cross and two physicians staffed the infirmary. In 2007, Mr and Mrs William K. Warren, Jr. donated $8 million to the university for the refurbishment of the health center, which was renamed Saint Liam Hall. The Warrens are prominent donors to the University of Notre Dame; the Notre Dame golf course is called the Warren Golf Course. The university stated that the building was named in honor of Mr. Warren's father, William K. Warren, Sr., (Liam is Irish for William) and his namesake Saint William of York.
Academic DeBartolo Hall, located on the DeBartolo Quad, is an all-purpose classroom building that is so large it could fit half of the student body at one time. It doubled the university's classroom space when it was built in 1992. Its 73 rooms (consisting of 75% of the university's classroom space) range from Notre Dame's largest lecture hall, which seats 465, to small 20-seat seminar rooms and computer clusters, all equipped with interactive digital learning. It was built thanks to a donation from the DeBartolo family.
Libraries
The Hesburgh Library is the primary building of the library system of the university. The building opened on September 18, 1963, as the Memorial Library. It was named after Father Theodore Hesburgh in 1987. The library has 3.39 million volumes, the 61st largest collection among all U.S. research universities. The finished structure, which is tall, has a interior, which also hosts study spaces, digital learning infrastructure, rare manuscripts, library administration and several academic centers. In 2015, the university began major renovations to the library that will modernize its interior design. The library system also includes branch libraries for Architecture, Chemistry and Physics, Engineering, Law, and Mathematics, as well as information centers in the Mendoza College of Business, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and a slide library in O'Shaughnessy Hall.
Law School
The first Law School building was built in 1930. In 2004, the Kresge Law Library became one of the few academic law libraries to own more than 600,000 volumes. This was accomplished mainly under the tenure of the fifth law librarian, Roger Jacobs, who also served as head librarian of the Library of the United States Supreme Court.