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Summary
Holy Name Seminary
702 High Point Road
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Date of Construction: 1964
Architects: Krueger, Kraft and Associates
Holy Name Seminary is an excellent high-style example of a large-scale educational building designed in the Neo-Colonial style of architecture in Wisconsin. This style was a continuation of the Colonial Revival style that emerged in the United States after World War II and remained popular until the early 1980s. Madison-based architects Krueger, Kraft and Associates designed the exterior of the building in the Neo-Colonial style to convey a sense of tradition and a visual connection with the permanence, integrity, and reliability of America’s oldest and most venerable educational institutions. The building’s red brick exterior, symmetrical massing and fenestration patterns, rectilinear floor plan, prominent projecting entry porticos, and dentiled cornice are all hallmarks of the style. The building’s stately Georgian exterior detailing, large metal windows, unusual complex massing and no-nonsense institutional interior spaces exemplify the free interpretation of the colonial precedents and mixing of traditional and modern elements that characterized the Neo-Colonial style in the 1950s and 1960s.
Holy Name Seminary retains a high level of exterior integrity with no non-historic additions or major alterations, and the interior also retains sufficient integrity.
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New Bells for Holy Name Seminary
October 7, 1964
Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison Catholic Diocese consecrates four new bells before they are raised in position at the new Holy Name Seminary building located at 702 S. High Point Road in ...
New Holy Name Seminary at 702 S. High Point Road
September 15, 1964
The new $3 million Holy Name Seminary, located at 702. S. High Point Road in Madison, is ready for its first class of 205 students.
Window Washing at New Holy Name Seminary, 702 S. High Point Road
September 15, 1964
Mothers of new seminarians volunteer to wash windows at the new Holy Name Seminary located at 702 S. High Point Road in Madison. The mothers came from Diocese of Madison Catholic parishes in Madiso...
Holy Name Seminary
May 27, 1965
Panoramic view of Msgr. George Wirz strolling in front of the new Colonial-style Holy Name Seminary.
