More than just a house.
A piece of ND history.
6 bedrooms, 5 baths
3,750 square feet
Four blocks to the Notre Dame campus
Pine floors
One gas and three original wood-burning fireplaces
Ground floor master suite with laundry
All new bathrooms
New kitchen with Wolf range and Subzero refrigerator
One-bedroom apartment over the garage
Large finished basement with bedroom, bathroom, laundry, utilities, and rumpus room
Built in 1937
Renovated in 2022
About ND faculty member and author Thomas Bowyer Campbell, who built the house at the corner of Frances and Napoleon in 1937
About Avenel, the plantation house in Bedford, Virginia where T. Bowyer Campbell spent much of his youth and after whose cook house, now demolished, Bowyer Campbell designed his house.
T. Bowyer Campbell purchased the land where the he built the house from Notre Dame for $1. In the lore of the house, he built it from bricks recovered from a building demolished on the campus.
Moving the house down Napoleon from Frances Street
Renovation and new construction inspired by English country homes and designed by Kil Architecture.
522 Napoleon Street
Historic house, built with bricks from an ND building, moved from the corner of Frances & Napoleon to new location at Hill & Napoleon. Rustic and traditional brick and wood blended seamlessly with all-new addition.
