Within five years the enrollment increased to the extent that the original facilities were inadequate. In the summer of 1907, Frank C. Layer, the architect for the first section of the building, drew the plans. The lay brothers with some hired help built the next section (40 by 30 feet) of the building. This section was completed in time for the beginning of school in the fall of 1908.

This section would later be identified as the portion of the building that contained the middle entrance to Benedictine Hall. *