Catholic Campus Ministry at N.C. State University has a new home for its students’ faith life. The new Doggett Center building is located at 1410 Hillsborough Street, at the corner of Hillcrest Road and Hillsborough Street and will serve the CCM community as a place for service, study, prayer and social events.
The property is 4,446 square feet and the lot size is 0.24 acres. It’s a historic home that was previously converted to office space. There are 14 parking spaces. The property is one mile from the Talley Student Union, 0.4 miles from the Memorial Belltower at Henry Square and 0.4 miles from a Wolfline bus stop.
Campus Ministry staff, which includes Father Joshua West, L.C., Father Daniel Rolczynski, L.C., Dani Irving, development director, and Alex Goulet, campus minister, visited the newly purchased home in February shared photos of the interior on social media.
CCM also has a student leadership team that helps to organize Mass celebrations, plans events, prepares music for liturgies and coordinates social media.
Father Joshua and Irving visited the home of the Duke Catholic Center, the Falcone-Arena House, for ideas and inspiration for the new space in Raleigh.
The purchase price of 1410 Hillsborough St. was $2.25 million, according to the Diocese of Raleigh’s CFO, Russell Elmayan, who added that the diocese contributed a little over $1 million (in the form of two grants) toward the cost. The remainder was funded by donations and pledge payments to CCM, as well as an interest-free Horne Loan from the diocese. That loan will be paid from the remainder of the pledge commitments.
“The diocese also supports this ministry on an ongoing basis through an annual grant of just over $100,000 from the Bishop’s Annual Appeal,” said Elmayan.
The interest-free loan is a Horne loan, named after the Horne Sisters, who left the funds for these revolving interest-free loans to the diocese in an estate.
“Catholic Campus Ministry was officially founded on campus at N.C. State University in 1965,” said Irving. In 1988, Bishop Joseph Gossman opened The Doggett Center, a home/building near campus, for the ministry. The Doggett Center was torn down in 2013 for the building of the new cathedral, she added, and Catholic Campus ministry recently operated out of the Talley Center.
Video
Watch a video about what the new home means for NCSU students and how you can give to the fundraising campaign.
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Photos courtesy of CCM.
