Final Phase of Campaign Construction Completed
September 2014:
Xaverian welcomes its
first seventh grade class
of boys to the Francis
Xavier Division
September 2015:
10,000-square-foot academic
classroom addition opens,
including five modern classrooms
and two collegiate-inspired, state-
of-the-art science labs
October 2014: Xaverian’s new 32,500-square-
foot Wellness Center officially opens to students,
faculty, and staff
TIMELINE CONTINUED
THE LIBRARY
Call it a huddle space. A maker space. A collaborative learning space. Whatever you call it, the
newly renovated Xaverian library is the space where Xaverian students want to study, research,
work together, create, and learn; and it’s easy to see why.
As libraries increasingly move away from paper books toward online catalog and searchable
databases, Xaverian opted to scale back its book collection and in the place of the old stacks,
add modern, student-centric spaces. Four collaborative learning spaces, (brightly lit, glassed-in
rooms with whiteboards, tables, network capabilities, and comfortable chairs) have been added
to the library. Students are able to sign out the spaces throughout the day. They’ve been used for
everything from group study sessions, to engineering projects, to robotics. Outside of these rooms
is a section of upholstered individual club chairs, each with its own power source for students to
plug in and work in a more comfortable environment. Additionally, all of the original private study
carrels were maintained. At any given time during the day, hundreds of students can be found
working in the library.
THE JOSEPHINE M. NOBLE CHAPEL
Striking the tone between cool modernity, warm welcome, and just enough jaw dropping,
reverential awe, the new Josephine M. Noble Chapel is proudly on display as the heart of Xaverian’s
campus. The grand space is open to the Sarah M. Bisson Foyer through oversized glass panels and
doors. Cloaked in solid maple wood, from the two-story walls to the ornately carved furniture,
the Chapel houses two new statues of the Blessed Mother and St. Francis Xavier, patron saint of
the Xaverian Brothers. Suspended in the air above the altar is a maple carved crucifix, matched by
wooden alcoves behind the altar to house and display the beautiful new tabernacle and Book of the
Gospels.
The Chapel promises to provide an inspiring community space for generations of students to
reflect, pray, and feel closer to God.