Santa Clara University (Calif.); Dining rooms; Students;
Interior of dining hall with students eating at tables. The Students' Dining Room was created during the Civil War when Villiger extended the first floor of the Adobe Lodge northward toward the sacristy of the Mission Church.
Santa Clara University (Calif.);Debates; Student organizations
Interior of Debating Hall. The Philalethic Debating Society, formed in 1856, was the first collegiate debating society modeled after the national legislature in Washington.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Buildings; Theaters; Dormitories; Santa Clara (Calif.)
College Hall contained a dormitory on the ground floor and a three-thousand-seat theater on the second floor. Moved from the corner of Alviso and Franklin streets to Franklin and Lafayette streets in 1912, the durable Ship remained Santa Clara's...
The 130-bed senior dormitory was located on the first floor of the Ship. The term "senior" refers to the collegiate students who lived there as opposed to the high school students who slept elsewhere.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Buildings;
Built in c. 1862 under the auspices of Burchard Villiger, S.J., President of Santa Clara College from 1861-1865, the Faculty Residence was a four-story wooden structure with a foundation located on the former residence of the Fransiscan...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara
This image is one of the earliest images of Mission Santa Clara, after 1855. The adobe wall extends from the Baptistry to the arch of old gate to Major Domo Ignacio Alviso's headquarters. The building at right, known as California Hotel, was a...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); ; Santa Clara (Calif.); Buildings; Mission Santa Clara
Santa Clara College showing, from left, Jesuit Faculty Residence, Mission Church, Nobili's Gothic Chapel, the Science Building in the background, and the California Hotel.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Transportation; San Jose (Calif.);
Horse-car on tree-line Alameda near University Avenue. In the 1860's, The Alameda remained the chief link between the towns of Santa Clara and San Jose. Passengers could ride the horse-car for a dime.
Science Building and Commercial Building from across the College courtyard. The yard in front was reserved for recreation use for day students. On the far left was located a classroom dubbed Letter A. Here errant students completed penalties...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; Santa Clara (Calif.);
Mission Church as it appeared after an Italianate Victorian façade of wood with two matching towers was laid over its original adobe front in 1861. The California Hotel with its second floor Debating Hall can also be seen.
