Madelaine and Lorraine Hall
Location: Reid Street
Architects: Berners, Schober & Kilp
Cost: $706,332 + $67,881 equipment = $774,213
These two residence halls, built in 1961 to house 173 women students are joined by a spacious lounge extending across the front entrance to the halls. The buildings were dedicated and occupied in 1963.
The site for the halls is that of the former Edward Vincent home and the adjoining land at the North end of Second Street, since closed by the city of De Pere and deeded to the College.
Names relating to the Norbertine Order were given to the buildings. One was named Lorraine Hall and the other Madelaine Hall. St. Norbert, the founder of the religious order which founded St. Norbert College, belonged to the nobility of Lorraine, a province of Northeastern France. The name of Madelaine was chosen in honor of Abbot Madelaine of Mondaye Abbey in Northern France, who was a noted historian and also the extraordinary confessor of St. Therese of Lisieux.
The chapel serving these buildings was the gift of St. Norbert alumnus, the late Frederick D. Carroll '16, a Chicago Attorney. The chapel was named after his brother, Francis, also deceased, a 1920 alumnus of the College. The FRANCIS CARROLL CHAPEL was blessed in 1963.
Lorraine Hall now houses women students and Madelaine Hall houses men students.