St. Edward's Hall
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| 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 |
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| Location | Notre Dame, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′17.4516″W / 41.702299000°N 86.238181000°WCoordinates: 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′17.4516″W / 41.702299000°N 86.238181000°W |
| Built | 1882 |
| Architect | Father Edward Sorin and Brother Charles Harding |
| 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. The coat of arms is the Cross of Saint Edward the Confessor on a green background.
Saint Edward's Hall was built in 1882 as a boarding school. In 1925, Knute Rockne received his First Holy Communion in the Chapel of Saint Edward the Confessor. 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. 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.
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.
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