Townhouse Village
Location: Between Marsh and Stewart Streets east of Schuldes Sports Center
Architects: Champ, Parish, Rausch
Cost: $2.55 million including furnishings
Ceremonies dedicating the new Townhouse Village Residence Hall complex were held on the College campus October 1, 1988. The townhouse project was funded by a low interest loan of nearly $2.2 million awarded to St. Norbert under the U.S. Department of Education's College Housing Program and gifts from donors Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kerscher, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Neufeld, and Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Olejniczak, who were acknowledged with townhouse units named for them.
Immediately adjacent to the Fox River's waters, the 14 townhouses and an adjacent carriage house are designed to house about 100 St. Norbert upperclass students. The townhouse units each house six students; the carriage house has four apartments, two of them handicapped equipped, accommodating four students each. The carriage house also contains the Residence Hall Director's office and apartment, meeting rooms, quiet study areas, recreation room, television lounge, and laundry facilities.
The total project is 40,000 square feet, completed at a cost of $2.55 million, including furnishings. Revenue generated by occupancy of the townhouse will repay the federal loan.
Four Norbertines, selected for their past contributions to St. Norbert College, have townhouse unites named after them: the Revs. Anselm Keefe (Anselm House), Gregory Rybrook (Gregory House), Michael McKeough (Michael House), and Patrick Butler (Patrick House).
College President, Dr. Thomas Manion, said the townhouse complex reflects an institutional commitment to quality and excellence in all aspects of campus life.