The Xavier University Main Building, Convent and Library are three late

Gothic Revival architecture Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style buildings on the campus of

Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier University of Louisiana (also known as XULA) is a Private university, private, Historically black colleges and universities, historically black, Roman Catholic, Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU ...

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, listed on the

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. The buildings are a three-story main building built in 1932, a -story convent built in 1932, and a two-story library built in 1937.

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The three buildings, fronted by Drexel Drive, represent the original buildings of the Xavier campus, With . following the campus' move from the Xavier University Preparatory School/

St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School (also known as Drexel Prep or SKDP) is a private Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school is named for the late Saint Katharine Drexel. She is the first saint who was born a U.S. citize ...

5100 Magazine Street address. The Administration building is also named as a City of New Orleans landmark, although it does not appear on the list of city Historical Landmarks. According to the

nomination the main building and the convent are two distinct buildings, while some sources describe the structures as two wings of a single structure. The main building and convent are constructed of Indiana limestone.

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