The Campus in Buildings

1966 – 2026

The built campus: Holy Cross College's campus is a single Brothers' holding on the west side of State Road 933, shared with the provincial center and Holy Cross Village, and its buildings fall into three groups: the brothers' own houses that came first, the college buildings of the Gilman transformation, and the building wave of the 2020s. The college's own campus map of fall 2025 is the checklist for what stands; where no dedication or construction date was found, the building is printed with its function and the gap is named in the note rather than a date being supplied from guesswork.

The first group predates the college's teaching by months and frames it still. The Holy Cross Provincial Center — the Midwest Brothers' residence and office — was the first building erected on the ground, in 1966, its construction photograph anchoring the province's account of the year. Saint Joseph Chapel, at the same 54515 State Road 933 address the college uses, is the chapel of that brothers' complex and of the college alike: its first Mass was celebrated in 1966, the brothers' final vows and funerals moved to the village chapels from the Sacred Heart Basilica at Notre Dame beginning in the mid-1960s, and Saint Joseph Cemetery on the village grounds has received the brothers since 1966. Around the chapel and center grew Holy Cross Village, the brothers' retirement community, built out from the late 1990s: single-family and duplex residences on a parcel the Indiana courts measured at 38.62 acres, Schubert Villa for assisted living, Riverside Place apartments, and Dujarie House, the brothers' infirmary — college-ground buildings that are not college buildings, printed here so no later reader mistakes the village for the school.

The college's own teaching core is Vincent. The campus map lists a Vincent Building and a Vincent Classroom Building joined by the Vincent Atrium, where the admissions office sits; the faculty directory in the college's catalog puts its humanities and social science offices in Vincent Hall, room by room. Under Gilman the Vincent Academic Center added seventeen classrooms and laboratories, on the presidents page's account; no construction or dedication year for the Vincent buildings was found in the open record, and Vincent stands in this record by its function and its Gilman-era expansion, its dating left to the college archives. Beside it the map sets the McKenna Library, its dating likewise unfound, and the Siegfried Dining Hall, whose operation passed to the University of Notre Dame's campus dining service in the 2017 reorganization.

The Gilman era's showpiece is the Pfeil Center. Built through 2008 as the college's multipurpose building, it was dedicated on 7 January 2009, with the McKenna Arena basketball court inside it — the arena's name and the library's name carrying the same benefactor surname, though the record read does not state the connection and none is printed. The Pfeil Center holds the college's athletics offices, its health center, its fitness rooms and indoor track, and its largest assembly space: presidential installations and inaugurations have been held in it in 2017 and 2023. The same era gave the campus its ceremonial furniture — the Millennium Arch, or Gateway Arch as the newer maps style it, at the campus entry, and Hardesty Plaza — both credited to Gilman's tenure in the Congressional Record tribute, and both still in daily use: the class entering in August 2026 processed beneath the Millennium Archway at its matriculation, as the college's own welcome account describes.

Housing tells the residential transformation in names. The fall 2025 map lists Legacy, James, North, Pulte, Basil, and South halls, with Anselm Hall in the college's other current listings; North Hall, opened in 2015, was the last new housing before the present wave. On 8 May 2025 the college broke ground beside Vincent Hall and the Pfeil Center on a twelve-million-dollar residence hall, the first new building on campus in a decade, and on 21 August 2026 it opened as Holy Cross Hall, the college's seventh residence hall, housing 110 men and three resident assistants, with a chapel to be completed that fall whose inspiration the college names as Our Lady of Guadalupe, and whose funding includes the chapel gift recorded in the base fragment. The wave around it: the athletic complex's first phase, completed in fall 2025, gave the soccer field its first stadium lighting and an electronic scoreboard; a devotional shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows had opened in 2024; and a student union with an adoration chapel stands in concept design as this record closes in November 2026, its campus-ministry center funded in part by the record gift the base fragment records.

Sources:

1. Holy Cross College campus map, fall 2025, and commencement campus map — Vincent Building, classroom building and atrium, McKenna Library, Siegfried Dining Hall, Saint Joseph Chapel, Pfeil Center with McKenna Arena, the residence halls named.
2. Brothers of Holy Cross, Midwest Province newsletter, March 2015, and midweek sheet, February 2013 — the provincial center as first building of 1966; the Pfeil Center and McKenna Court dedication, 7 January 2009.
3. Today's Catholic, 2016, and the province's August 2013 midweek sheet — first Mass in Saint Joseph Chapel, 1966; brothers buried from the village chapels and in Saint Joseph Cemetery since 1966.
4. Indiana Tax Court, Brothers of Holy Cross v. Saint Joseph County, December 2007 — the village parcel of 38.62 acres; Dujarie House, Schubert Villa, Riverside Place and Saint Joseph Chapel as the corporation's facilities.
5. Holy Cross College presidents page; Congressional Record, September 2010 — the Vincent Academic Center's seventeen classrooms and labs, the Millennium Arch and Hardesty Plaza, the Pfeil Center, under Gilman.
6. Holy Cross College construction page and announcements of May 2025, February 2026 and 21 August 2026 — athletic complex phase one, the 8 May 2025 groundbreaking, Holy Cross Hall's opening and chapel, the 2024 shrine, the student union in design.