Thank you for visiting Keenan Hall. Keenan Hall is a 150-room male residence dormitory located in the North Quad of the University of Notre Dame, west of North Dining Hall. It is structurally connected to Stanford Hall with which Keenan shares the largest chapel on campus.
We are well-known here at Notre Dame. To some, we are the proud Knights of North Quad. To others, we are hooligans. But one thing is certain. We are Keenan Hall.
We are Fratres in Christo (Brothers in Christ). We are resourceful, successful men, and we are a force to be reckoned with.
Keenan Hall is located on Notre Dame’s North Quad, just west of North Dining Hall. Built in 1957, it is a prime example of classic 1950s-type architecture, in which form quite clearly follows function. Once you can get over the fact that Keenan Hall looks and feels a bit like a bomb shelter, though, you can look at the awesome people inside and all the cool stuff we do. This also helps divert your attention from our friendly (in a little brother is friendly to big brother with more muscle kind of way) neighbors, who also think they’re awesome and way cool. Our little brother dorm, Stanford, even shares our building; they like us that much. (We’re not honored.)
Even though Stanford seems to weigh us down by trying to ride on our gravy train, we do have the awards to show for our claims. Time and time again in recent memory, Keenan has often been recognized as Men’s Hall of the Year (’00-’01, ’03-’04, ’05-’06, ’10-’11) and Hall of the Year (’01-’02, and ’13-’14).
Perhaps the biggest factor in our success is our wide variety of cool traditions. These range from the ever-popular Keenan Revue, to our Reindeer Roast cookout, to our community service activities like our weekly volunteering at the Dismas House, our organizing the Great Pumpkin, tutoring students at the Robinson Center, or helping with Christmas in April. Athletic traditions are also strong in Keenan, from Interhall football to volleyball (especially Muddy Sunday) to horseshoes, Keenan teams make success their past and present. Section sports are also very important for the Knights, and there continues to be the building of tremendous legacies with “The Hambone Trophy” (given to the winning section football squad) and Waffleball, to name a few.
Inside our walls, one can easily find more reasons for Keenan’s utter awesomeness. Our basement, the Keenan Kommons, is one basement to rule them all. We have a GIGANTIC projection screen movie room (now with cable!), a big-screen TV/game room, a weight room, music rehearsal space, a study lounge or two, and of course our very popular student-run gourmet restaurant, Zaland (home of the “Best Pizza In Za-Land”). Our basement alone provides a number of handy services to the permanently overworked men of Keenan when they need a break, but our proximity to LaFortune and North Dining Hall are not to be ignored, as they come in handy quite often.
We are the Knights. We are Keenan Hall!