Website Explanation
St. Norbert College added it's first residential hall in 1942 with the construction of Dennis M. Burke Hall. Since then the College has continued developing the residential housing to meet the requirements for the ever expanding student population. The College has added ten additional residential halls and a number of campus owned houses. Below is a list of the construction dates of the various St. Norbert resident halls:
1942-Dennis M. Burke Hall
1956-Frank J. Sensenbrenner Hall
1963-Victor McCormick Hall
1963-Lorraine and madelaine Halls
1965-Mary Minahan McCormick Hall
1966-Gertrude S. Bergstrom Hall
1979-Riverside South Dormitory
1982-John J. Vander Zanden hall
1988-Townhouse Village Residence Hall
1997-Dale and Ruth Michels Hall
2010-Fr. Eugene E. Gries Hall
In order to create this website and exhibit, we found pictures in the St. Norbert College archive as well as online. We also included at least one photo of the residence halls in their current (2012) condition. We then took these pictures and added them to Omeka and organized them into an exhibit. We digitized pages from Pertinent facts about St. Norbert College Buildings in order to give a brief history on each building. We finalized the project by adding a map of the college and this section explaining the website for the users.
This online exhibit of the College's residence halls allows the school to share valuable information with anyone who is interested. The information was previously only available through a few books in the Mulva Library making it difficult for anyone not on campus too access it. The exhibit includes important information such as costs, location, and other items that would be helpful to anyone doing research on the College. The exhibit also serves as a promotional tool for the College. Any prospective student, parent, or even alumni can check out the school's continuing residential expansion.
This website is a scholarly addition to Omeka's many digital humanities projects. We centralized pictures of the various resident halls, which were once in an unorganized archive, into exhibits making the pictures much easier to find. Our exhibit includes searchable tags which also aid in navigating the website and finding a specific hall. We also added recent pictures, and different views of the various resident halls. Along with the pictures we included the available metadata and information on the buildings. This exhibit also allows people to access the resident hall pages of the Pertinent facts about St. Norbert College Buildings book from anywhere around the World.
Any incoming student to St. Norbert College is nervous about their first year of College. Unless a student is given advice from an alumni or current student, it is very difficult for an incoming freshman to decide which residence hall to occupy. The housing website through the college is very basic giving one or two pictures and a floor plan of the hall. Our website can help any incoming student by showing them exactly what the residence hall looks like, where it is located on campus, and even the history of the hall if they are interested.
We will also include a list of the nicknames given to some residence halls. These nicknames are used by almost every student.
Madelaine and Lorraine = Mad - Lor
Bergstrom = Berg
Sensenbrenner = Banger
Mary Minahan McCormick = Three M, 3M, MMM
Victor McCormick = VMC
Townhouse Village = Townhouses