Built in 1909 as a residence hall, the five-story Walsh Hall is located in the University of Notre Dame’s famous Main Quad. The hall was one of two dormitories converted to be residences for women in 1972 for Notre Dame’s first female students. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The renovations of Walsh Hall encompassed over 45,000 gross square feet of floor space and total construction cost was estimated at $6 million.

The historic building underwent extensive renovations, the most significant of any residence hall on campus at the time, in order to update utilities and modernize amenities and accessibility. The renovations of Walsh Hall encompassed over 45,000 gross square feet of floor space and total construction cost was estimated at $6 million. Frost served as the design engineer for new structural steel framing, timber floor framing, reinforced masonry elevator shaft and shear walls and concrete foundations. All structural systems were designed to carry both gravity and lateral loads. The Frost team relied on their wide-ranging experience in structural renovations of older buildings to ensure that all shear and bearing connections into the building’s existing materials, including century-old unreinforced clay brick masonry, were design for safety, long-term durability and constructability.