Saint Anselm College Manchester
— — a Benedictine campus that learned to host the country.
Not only on a wall.
“Saint Anselm College sits on a wooded rise west of downtown Manchester, founded by Benedictine monks of the Order of Saint Benedict in 1889. The Abbey Church anchors the campus; the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, on the south end, has hosted presidential primary debates through every modern cycle. From the studio, it reads as a small college that has quietly mattered far more than its enrolment of two thousand suggests.
Saint Anselm College Manchester, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Saint Anselm College stands on a 400-acre hilltop campus in Goffstown, New Hampshire, addressed from Manchester just across the town line. The college was founded in 1889 by monks of the Order of Saint Benedict at the request of Denis Bradley, the first bishop of Manchester. About 2,000 undergraduates study under a Catholic, Benedictine, liberal-arts charter. The Abbey Church and the resident monastic community remain at the centre of campus life. The college is named for Anselm of Canterbury, the eleventh-century theologian who served as Archbishop from 1093 to 1109.
Every four years the college becomes a national broadcast set. The New Hampshire Institute of Politics, opened on the south end of campus in 2001, has hosted presidential primary debates and town halls for both major parties through every cycle since. Candidates from across the field have walked the same corridors; the Institute's auditorium has carried CNN, NBC, and ABC broadcasts to the rest of the country. Outside debate season the building functions as a working classroom for the Politics and International Relations programs. The first-in-the-nation primary keeps Manchester on the map.
The Abbey Church of Saint Anselm, completed in 1957, anchors the upper campus in red brick and limestone with a stripped Romanesque profile. Below it, Alumni Hall (1893) carries the older Victorian core of the school. The quad is set on the hill so that the church tower reads against the New Hampshire sky from Saint Anselm Drive below. A working Benedictine monastery sits adjacent to the church; the monks who staff it remain part of the college's daily life, ringing the hours and saying the offices that founded the place in 1889.