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Self-Guided Walking Tour We’re glad you’re here! 4 Trinity Hall 16 Canevin Hall Recreation and 40 Genesius Theater 49 Des Places Hall West of the Administration Building sits Trinity Hall, Canevin Hall, which houses the School of Education, Athletics Tour Opened in 2015, the Genesius Theater is a 10,500 Des Places Hall, completed in 2012 and named Welcome to Duquesne University. We hope you the residence of the Spiritan priests who serve the sits opposite the Bayer Learning Center. Renovated square-foot, two-story multipurpose structure that for Claude Poullart des Places, the founder of the enjoy your visit! University as administrators and teachers. in 2008, it is the second oldest academic building on holds approximately 130 seats. The theater’s major Spiritans, is Duquesne’s newest residence hall. The Duquesne’s campus. 31 Duquesne Union features include a main entrance and lobby, rehearsal 12-story structure, designed to have numerous Along with retail facilities, including , hall, dressing rooms, building shops, costume storage environmentally friendly features while offering To help you find your way around, we’ve created 26 Laval House Chick-fil-A Express, a computer store, a large and a green room. the highest levels of comfort and safety, houses self-guided walking tours that will give you an Laval House serves as the Spiritan Vocation 27 Mellon Hall study lounge, and PNC Bank ATMs, the Duquesne approximately 430 upperclassmen in single rooms inside look at our beautiful campus. Take your Office and provides housing for visiting Spiritans Union houses recreational amenities, restaurants, and two- or three-bedroom suites. Next to Bayer Learning Center is the Richard King and undergraduate students preparing for the a ballroom, conference facilities and several pick of several short walks, each focused on a Mellon Hall of Science. This four-story structure, Residence Hall Tour priesthood. In the past, the building served as the offices including Student Activities, Greek Life, different aspect of campus life: our heritage, designed by acclaimed architect Mies van der Rohe, University President’s Office and, prior to that, as a Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Judicial Affairs, our award-winning academic programs, our houses the departments of Biological Sciences Brottier Hall Sustainability Tour convent. Commuter Affairs, and Freshman Development 9 and Chemistry as well as the laboratories for the recreational and athletic facilities, our residence and Disability Services. At the corner of Locust Street and McAnulty Drive School of Pharmacy. Instructional facilities include 31 Duquesne Union, Second Floor halls, and our efforts to be more sustainable. is Brottier Hall, a building with a spectacular view 53 Academic Walk two large amphitheater-style lecture halls, each of , which houses approximately 750 Renovation Academic Walk, or “A-Walk,” the long pedestrian mall with a 250-person seating capacity, as well as upperclassmen, and some graduate students, in A major renovation in the Duquesne Union has A Safe and Welcoming Campus extending through the heart of campus, was once well-equipped laboratories and a science computer Duquesne Union studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. It is earned Gold Certification under the U.S. Green known as Vickroy Street. As late as the 1950s, it was facility. 20 stories high, with 314 rental units. Each unit is Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and lined with row houses where successive waves of Pittsburgh is one of the nation’s safest cities equipped with a full kitchen including refrigerator, Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. The immigrants made their homes. As Duquesne grew, 35 College Hall electric stove and microwave, and a private bath, project created a healthier human environment, with and Duquesne’s Department of Public Safety one by one these buildings became part of the which includes a combination bathtub and shower. increased fresh airflow, enhanced air filtration, low- is one of the few university police forces in University. They served as student housing, office College Hall, a six-story building, is the home of volatile organic compound finishes and an extensive the state to be accredited by the space and classrooms. Laval House is the last of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of green cleaning program. It also features paneling, Chiefs of Police Association. With more than 50 these Vickroy Street structures. Liberal Arts and houses most of its departments 46 Vickroy Hall and facilities. Special instructional facilities include cabinets and doors constructed of wood certified by Vickroy Hall is a 322-bed facility with double and well-trained officers and security staff, we are public computer laboratories, the University’s Writing the Forest Stewardship Council. triple rooms and bathrooms shared by four or five fully committed to maintaining a safe campus Center, student televison and radio studios, and Academic Tour people. Vickroy Hall is reserved for upperclassmen for students, faculty, staff and visitors. several large lecture halls. and some graduate students. Residents have access 32 Power Center to a kitchen with ovens, pots and pans, refrigerators 24 36 Rooney Field The Power Center earned LEED Silver Certification As you’re taking in the sights, don’t be afraid to and more. from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 136,000 Near the crest of Locust Street is the Gumberg College Hall Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field is named in honor ask for help or directions. Our students, faculty sq. ft. multipurpose building, which includes a Library, a five-story facility with holdings that include of the founder of the (and bookstore, restaurants, recreational facilities and a and staff are proud of Duquesne and are eager print and digital resources as well as an extensive Duquesne alumnus). It is the home field of the Vickroy Hall ballroom, was designed and built within a framework to help visitors. collection of sound recordings and the School of University’s football team, men’s and women’s of high concern for the environment. Education’s Curriculum Center, as well as invaluable soccer teams, and the women’s lacrosse team. archival materials. At the eastern end of the field is the field house, with locker rooms, an athletic training room and 49 Des Places Hall coaches’ offices. Heritage Tour 1 Libermann Hall Named in honor of the founder of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Claude Poullart des Places, this Duquesne’s newest academic building is a thoroughly 12-story residence hall incorporates a full range of 12 “Old Main” 45 McCloskey Field renovated eight-story structure housing the the latest sustainable technologies in its design and Duquesne was founded in 1878 in rented rooms Biomedical Engineering (BME) program and adult On the corner of Seitz Street sits McCloskey Field, construction as well as in its daily operations. Des and veteran student enrollment services, as well as which is used for outdoor intramural sports and a above a bakery in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District 41 School of Music Places Hall earned LEED Gold Certification from the neighborhood, which lies just north and east of BME, Nursing and Occupational Therapy labs. wide variety of other recreational activities. The Home to the Mary Pappert School of Music, this U.S. Green Building Council in 2013. campus. In 1885, Spiritan priests and brothers field is surrounded by a four-lane, all-weather building has more than classrooms, offices and constructed the current Administration Building, track used by the campus community as well as 42 Duquesne Towers 2 Rockwell Hall practices spaces. Inside are electronic music studios, known now as “Old Main,” of wooden beams and the University’s track and field teams. Duquesne Towers is a 17-floor residence for Rockwell Hall houses the Palumbo-Donahue School a keyboard lab and a Music Technology Center as Des Places Hall handmade bricks. It is the first structure to be built 1,200 men and women. In addition to the resident of Business. This spacious 10-story building also well as the Pappert Center for Performance and on campus and at one time housed all of the school’s rooms, the facility features the newly renovated houses the Business School’s state-of-the-art Innovation, a technologically sophisticated and 44 Palumbo Center classrooms and offices as well as living quarters for and expanded Sean Hogan Dining Center, a Investment Center and a Technology Center for all acoustically superb venue for performing, recording students and Spiritans. Located at the corner of and convenience store, the Student Mail Center, a full- students, as well as the office of Career Services, the and rehearsing. The Pappert Center combines Magee Street, adjacent to McCloskey Field, is the size indoor swimming pool and the Spiritan Campus Psychology Department and Clinic, and other offices visionary design with the latest digital equipment. A.J. Palumbo Center. The Palumbo Center serves Ministry office. and facilities. The Music School has 68 Steinway pianos and six as the home arena for the Duquesne University organs along with a full array of orchestral and band “Old Main” men’s and women’s Dukes basketball teams and instruments that are available for student use, and has seating for up to 4,400 fans. The building 47 St. Martin Hall 10 Rangos Hall its newly remodeled PNC Recital Hall is used for a also houses three regulation size basketball This building houses the classrooms and offices of variety of student and faculty performances. St. Martin Hall, a 13-floor coed residence hall, houses courts, weight-room facilities for athletes, locker approximately 540 freshman students, with men and the John G. Rangos, Sr., School of Health Sciences, rooms and coaches’ offices. Throughout the year, including the school’s learning labs for the Athletic women on separate floors. The facility includes study 25 School of Law the Palumbo Center also serves as a venue for lounges, a recreational lounge and a computer lab. Training, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy concerts and other public events. 54 Energy Center and Physician Assistant Studies programs. The The School of Law is housed in Edward J. Hanley For over a decade, Duquesne has produced its fourth floor has the Anatomy Research and Teaching Hall and the John E. Murray Pavilion. The facility 52 Assumption Hall electricity using a clean-burning natural gas Laboratory and the School’s multimedia room. The features research and study rooms, two large 32 Power Center turbine located in this building tucked into a Assumption Hall is an L-shaped, four-story structure building, an award-winning design for reuse, is amphitheater lecture halls, interview rooms, seminar wooded hillside in the heart of campus. This unique This 136,000 sq. ft. multipurpose facility was named that houses approximately 250 graduate students Duquesne’s former field house. and classroom areas, and three moot courtrooms. cogeneration plant produces more than 75 percent for the Rev. , C.S.Sp., one of and students in the Honors College. It offers both The fully computerized law library is the most of the electrical power, heating and cooling for the Spiritan priests who founded Duquesne. single and double occupancy rooms and is the accessible of its kind in the city of Pittsburgh. University facilities. All of the remaining electricity Today, Old Main houses the Offices of Admissions The Power Recreation Center, an 80,000 sq. ft. area location of the Office of Residence Life. 17 Bayer Learning Center that the University uses is purchased from green and Financial Aid as well as the University’s executive on the second, third and fourth floors of the Power energy producers. In 2016, the University installed and business offices and the Michael P. Weber Bayer Learning Center, one of the most 13 Fisher Hall Center, is open seven days a week for Duquesne St. Ann Hall new boilers inside the plant as part of a campus- Learning Skills Center, which provides tutoring technologically advanced classroom facilities in Fisher Hall can be reached by a skywalk spanning students and employees. It features secure access to 50 wide steam expansion project. services for students making the transition from high the region, has 18 multimedia classrooms that Forbes Avenue. This building houses the School aerobics space; 30 Nautilus cardio-fitness machines St. Ann Hall, a seven-floor coed residence, houses school to college. provide satellite downlink capabilities, electronic of Nursing on the fifth floor along with computer with personal viewing screens; basketball, volleyball approximately 525 freshman students with men and whiteboards, projection screens and interactive labs and offices and classrooms for the Health and racquetball courts; an indoor track; free-weight women in separate wings of the building. student response pads. The building also houses the rooms; separate student and staff locker facilities; 11 Duquesne Chapel Management Systems and Speech-Language offices of the School of Pharmacy. Pathology programs, as well as the Speech- offices, classrooms and Internet-accessible lounges. Built in 1894, the Duquesne Chapel, which lies adjacent Language-Hearing Clinic, Exercise Physiology Lab, On the street level, the building has the University’s to Old Main and where Masses are said daily, offers Occupational Performance Lab, Counseling and an atmosphere for spiritual reflection to people of all Barnes & Noble Bookstore, signature Red Ring Wellbeing Center, and the departments of Theology, restaurant and Freshëns, a snack bar offering salads, religious traditions. Its stained-glass windows were Modern Languages and Literatures, and Physics. crafted in Munich, Germany. crepes and other foods for healthy, informal dining.