Ben Hall: The First Addition

Within five years, enrollment increased to the extent that the original facilities were inadequate. In the summer of 1907 Frank C. Layer, the architect for the first section of Ben Hall, drew the plans. With some hired help, the lay brothers built the next 40-by-30-foot section of the building. This section was completed in time for the beginning of school in the fall of 1908 and would later be identified as the portion of the building that contained the middle entrance to Benedictine Hall.