Campus address: 305 Fort Slemmer Drive NE
The Corinthian columns that mark the façade of O’Boyle Hall were originally dedicated as Holy Cross College in 1900. The Holy Cross Fathers, heeding the call to religious orders to advance Catholic higher education, located the college in Brookland, adjacent to CUA, in 1895. Much like the Marists, the college quickly found space lacking and built a new building on a plot of land just north of campus. It was dedicated in 1900 by Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, and blessed by Bishop Spaulding, a key advocate for Catholic higher education and CUA in general. Spaulding also helped solidify the funding for Caldwell Hall.
For the golden jubilee of the Holy Cross College in 1945, Most Reverend Giovanni Cicognanni, then Apostolic delegate to the US from Rome, celebrated the mass. Near the end of the 1960’s, CUA took over the building. In March of 1972, President Walton had the building renamed O’Boyle Hall on the retirement of Cardinal O’Boyle from active ministry. Today, the departments of Education, History, and Philosophy are primarily housed here, as well as the Counseling Center.