St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Davenport Iowa 52803 admit

General Information
chose St. Ambrose College as a location for the
training of many of its officers.
The high school department, known as
St. Ambrose Academy, moved to new quarters at
Assumption High School in 1958, providing additional
space on campus for continued growth.
In 1968 St. Ambrose became fully coeducational.
On April 23, 1987, St. Ambrose College
became St. Ambrose University at the direction of
the Board of Directors.
The St. Ambrose Campus
The St. Ambrose campus covers six blocks of residential
area in north-central Davenport. The
University has grown over the years from two
school rooms to an institution with 12 buildings.
Ambrose Hall, a landmark in the area, is
included in the National Register of Historic
Places. The original structure, built in 1885, has
seen a number of additions over the years. It
housed the entire college for some time because
officials thought operation of the institution
should be kept under one roof. Ambrose Hall
today includes an Administration Center, the
John R. Lewis Board Room, classrooms, faculty
offices, and the Student Union.
Adjacent to Ambrose Hall is LeClaire Hall.
While the former gymnasium has been converted
into a maintenance center, the building still houses
the University swimming pool.
The first free-standing building on campus
apart from Ambrose Hall was built in 1922,
when the preliminary section of Davis Hall was
completed. Today the enlarged and remodeled
structure is used as a residence for 150 students.
The Lewis Memorial Science Hall, a fourstory
building made possible through the generosity
of Frank J. Lewis, KSG, and the priests of
the Davenport Diocese, contains classrooms, laboratories,
and faculty offices.
After 55 years in McMullen Hall, library services
moved to O’Keefe Library, a new state-ofthe-art
building, on March 18, 1996. It provides
study space for 400 students and houses a current
collection of 150,000 volumes with space for
100,000 additional volumes. There are more than
650 current periodical subscriptions, a media collection
of audio and video cassettes, and a rare
book and special collections room. The library
provides access to the Internet and more than 75
electronic databases.
McMullen Hall, the former library, was completely
renovated and now houses classrooms, a
multimedia computerized language laboratory,
multimedia classrooms, two ICN interactive
video classrooms, and faculty offices.
Christ the King Chapel, with a seating capacity
for 530 persons, is adjacent to Hayes Hall, a
combined residence, classroom, office and seminary
facility.
Rohlman Hall is a four story, newly renovated
(reopening Fall 2001), coeducational (by floor)
residence hall accommodating 202 students.
Cosgrove Hall is also a coeducational residence
hall and it accommodates 224 students. The six
story building contains the Arnold Meyer Student
Lounge, several offices, a computer center, and
the campus post office in the lower level. There is
a lounge and the dining room with the capacity
to serve 700 people on the first floor, and four
floors of residents above.
Preferred housing for juniors and seniors consists
of the Townhouses, Tiedemann Hall, and
the newest addition, Hagen Hall, which opened
in the fall of 2000. The Townhouses have 8 students
per unit and house a total of 104 students.
Tiedemann Hall offers four-person apartment
style housing accommodating a total of 116 students.
Hagen Hall offers four-person and six-person
apartment style housing all with single bedrooms,
accommodating a total of 136 students.
The Paul V. Galvin Fine Arts and
Communications Center houses the departments
of art, music, theatre and communication, in
addition to the campus radio station and television
studio. Allaert Auditorium in the Galvin
Center has a seating capacity of more than 1200
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