The Council of Independent Colleges: Historic Campus Architecture Project

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Campus (view of landscaping), Our Lady of Holy Cross College

Campus (view of convent), Our Lady of Holy Cross College

Campus (new entrance to main building), Our Lady of Holy Cross College

Institution Name: Our Lady of Holy Cross College
Original/Historic Place Name: Campus
Location on Campus:
Date(s) of Construction and Designer(s):

1960	original construction; convent Unknown
1967	conversion to college from convent Nolan, Ulysses

Type of Place: Building group

Style(s) of majority of buildings: Other: Southern Colonial plantation

Style(s) of minority of buildings: not applicable

Building group type: Irregular; Other: one building used by students and faculty surrounded by a park environment.

Relationship to landscape:

none specified

Ideas associated with building group:

none specified

Function:

ca. 1960	other (convent)
ca. 2004-present (2007)	master plan (campus)

Significance: culture, education, landscape, religion
Landmark designation:

none

Narrative: see below
References: see below

Narrative:
The Marianites of Holy Cross, a Catholic congregation of women, founded Our Lady of Holy Cross College in 1916. To prepare teachers for the many schools the Marianites opened in southwest Louisiana, the Louisiana State Board of Education granted the Marianites the right to open a normal school that functioned as Holy Cross Normal. In 1938, the Louisiana State Department of Education approved a program that would lead to the conferring of the Bachelor of Arts degree. The name of the school was then changed to The College Department of the Academy of Holy Angels. In the spring of 1960, the College was moved to its present site, and the name was changed to Our Lady of Holy Cross College.

References:

I. Bibliographic sources:

None specified.

II. Location of other data: