Prior Performing Arts Center
Founded in 1843, the College of the Holy Cross was the first Catholic college in New England. Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick envisioned that the school would offer Catholic education in Boston, but opposition from the city’s Protestant civic leadership ultimately led him to found the Jesuit college forty-five miles away, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school enrolled just six students in its first year; within three years the college counted more than one hundred pupils in its theology-centered curriculum. While it remains affiliated with the Church, Holy Cross has evolved into a prominent liberal arts college with more than 3,000 undergraduate students and 350 faculty members delivering instruction in 42 disciplines. Still located on its original hilltop campus, overlooking the Blackstone River, the school integrates cutting-edge science and technology programs with its offerings in the humanities. With the addition of the Prior Performing Arts Center, the campus now consolidates the well-regarded but previously neglected visual arts program with its performing-arts offerings.
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