O'Shaughnessy Hall houses the College of Arts and Letters. It includes a Great Hall with seven stained-glass windows depicting the seven "classic" liberal arts, as well as a popular cafe.
The College of Arts and Letters, founded in 1842, is the oldest and largest college at Notre Dame. O'Shaughnessy Hall was built in 1953 to serve as the nucleus of Arts and Letters.
The hallways in O'Shaughnessy Hall are recognizable, as they appear in the 1993 film "Rudy"
The College of Arts and Letters remains the largest college at Notre Dame, with 500 faculty, 3,000 undergraduates, and 1,000 graduate students. The College has 20 departments spanning three divisions - the arts, the social sciences, and the humanities - and offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and minors, along with more than 20 graduate-degree programs.
The Great Hall at the entrance of O'Shaughnessy is home to seven stained-glass windows, each depicting one of the "classic" liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy.
The main entrance to O'Shaughnessy Hall
Waddick's, a 1950s-style cafe in O'Shaughnessy Hall, provides a place for students to socialize and study.
Many of the scenes from the movie "Rudy" were filmed in the hallways of O'Shaughnessy.
The Snite Museum of Art, adjacent to O'Shaughnessy, contains collections of Renaissance, Medieval, old master, and nineteenth-century art.