Derham Hall is the oldest building on campus. Completed in 1905 and named after Hugh Derham--a farmer from Rosemount who donated the money to construct the building--Derham initially housed dorms, classrooms, a cafeteria, a library, and a gym (when the students needed to exercise, they ran in the halls and up and down the stairs).
The Our Lady of Victory Chapel was completed in 1924 under the leadership of Mother Antonia McHugh CSJ, St. Catherine’s first academic dean and president. The Chapel, which was built in the likeness of a medieval cathedral in the south of France, reflects Mother Antonia’s grand vision for St. Catherine. Despite St. Catherine’s small enrollment in the early 1920’s of only about 400 students and the archbishop’s expectation that she build a modest chapel, Mother Antonia insisted that a grand chapel would be needed to meet the needs of St. Catherine in the future.