Teresa

Teresa Hall is one of the two legacy halls on campus, the other being East Hall. In 1966, when Maryhill College was established as a female-only school alongside the male-only school of St. Edward’s University, the women needed a place to live. East Hall was built that same year and then two years later came Teresa Hall to house all the women, until the university became co-educational in 1970. Among other residence halls at the time were Fleck, Doyle, Premont and Andre Halls. Over time, those buildings became academic spaces instead of residences, housing classrooms and offices. The on-campus apartments, Maryhill Apartments and Hilltopper Heights, were built in 1996 and 1999 respectively. Newer residence halls added since then have been Basil Moreau, Dujarié, Casa, Hunt, Le Mans and Johnson Halls. The newest dorm, The Pavilions, has been strife with controversy. First with a delay in opening, moving hundreds of students that had paid to live in the Pavilions into either the on-campus apartments or into hotels. The following year, once it was open, pipes leaked and caused a massive flood that once again moved residents out into other housing options, such as East Hall and UT apartments. Despite this, The Pavilions is not going away anytime soon. Teresa and East Hall, however, will be. The two legacy halls are proposed to be torn down to make way for a turf field and a single residence hall, according to the 2018 Master Plan, which is part of a larger Strategic Plan 2022. East Hall was actually closed down in the Fall of 2018 to make way for this transition, but had to be reopened for the Pavilion residents in need of a place to live. Both East and Teresa are rife with history, a lot which has been passed down on tours and Topper Tales (ghost stories told during Freshman Orientation). The on-campus apartments will also be torn down to make way for new housing, but the move on that is not yet known. As St. Edward’s continues to grow and expand its campus, it needs to bring its dorms up to modern standards. Although many of us enjoyed the cheaper dorms of Teresa and East, as well as the joys of living in on-campus apartments, we must part ways and usher in a new dorm life for future students to come.