The Priory serves as home for Norbertine priests who teach and work at the College. The first Norbertine residence was built between St. Joseph Church and a parish rectory on Grant Street. It was here that Fr. Bernard Pennings taught I.F. Van Dyke that first Latin lesson on Oct. 10, 1898, and founded St. Norbert College.
The building served as home to both the Norbertine fathers and St. Norbert College classes until the College moved into Main Hall in 1902. It would later become St. Norbert Abbey after Pennings was blessed as the first Norbertine Abbot in North America. In 1959, the St. Norbert Abbey was relocated to its present location east of the Fox River between Riverside Drive and Webster Avenue in De Pere.
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