Harkins Hall  /  St. Martin Hall  /Slavin Center  /  Alumni Hall  /  Safety and Security Center 

The original campus building, Harkins Hall is named for the late Rev. Matthew Harkins, D.D., bishop of Providence and the driving force behind the founding of Providence College. The French Gothic building, which was greatly expanded in 1929, presently houses offices for the College's administrative divisions, School of Continuing Education, Graduate Studies Program, and Education Department; the Balfour Center for Multicultural Affairs; classrooms; and a small chapel.

A live view of the entrance of Harkins Hall from a nearby building

St. Martin Hall

Designed by famed local architect Thomas A. Tefft and constructed in the 1850s, the Italian villa style house was part of the Bradley Estate purchased by the College in 1926. After extensive renovation, the building opened as the first on-campus residence hall.  From 1926 until 1962, Guzman Hall, named for the founder of the Order, St. Dominic Guzman, was primarily a dormitory for Dominican pre-ecclesiastical students. Like Dominic Hall, it is listed with the National Register of Historic Places. The building was renamed in 1962 to honor St. Martin de Porres, a Dominican lay brother from Lima, Peru recognized as the patron saint of social and interracial justice.

Martin Hall currently is home the Office of Institutional Advancement.

 
Slavin Center

Named for Rev. Robert J. Slavin, O.P., a member of the class of 1928 and the sixth president of Providence College, Slavin Center opened in 1971 as the campus hub for student activities. The building houses McPhail's, a student entertainment center; the '64 Hall auditorium; a food-court-style cafeteria; the Providence College Bookstore; the Office of Career Services; administrative offices for Student Services;   offices for a number of student organizations, including the Board of Programmers, Student Congress, The COWL (student newspaper), Veritas (yearbook) and WDOM (campus radio); meeting rooms and banking facilities.

 
Alumni Hall

Alumni Hall, which opened in 1955, was designed to provide a home court for the PC men's basketball team and to serve other emerging athletic programs, to accomodate non-resident students in cafeteria-style seating and to centralize facilities of the Military Science Department/ROTC. Alumni Hall houses the Department of Athletics' administrative offices for the College's 19 NCAA Division I teams.

Also located in Alumni Hall are a Cardio/Nautilus Equipment Room containing exercise bikes, Stairmasters, treadmills, and elliptical machines, as well as a second weight room providing free weights and plate loaded and selectorized weight equipment, and the Providence College Athletic Hall of Fame.

The building's gymnasium, with a seating capacity of just over 2,600, served as the men's basketball home court until 1972 when the action moved to downtown Providence. Known today as Joseph A. Mullaney Gymnasium, to honor the Friars' legendary men's basketball coach, it has been the home court for the Lady Friars basketball team since 1974. 

Safety and Security Center

Located at the Huxley Avenue entrance to the PC campus, the Office of Safety and Security is housed in a building that was originally a garage for the Good Shepherd property acquired by the College in 1955. Following renovations in 1990, the building housed both the Security Office and the Edwin B. O'Reilly Center, the College's student health center. The health center expanded in 1995 and relocated to Bedford Hall on the East Campus in 2002.