Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1854

pg 216       found insufficient to remove St. Mary's thither.
                  And yet those three houses were increasing, and by their 
             distance the one from the other they necessitated daily greater 
             expenses of transportation and more travelling of Priests, 
             Brothers, and Sisters.  To gather them together at a reasonable 
             distance from Notre Dame would be clearly a great benefit for the 
             Society of the Sisters, as also for the college, which could then 
             obtain from the Sisters all the services they were capable of 
             rendering, without imposing on them the inconveniences of too 
             close a proximity or too great a distance.
                  F. Granger in his walks with his novices, had noticed an 
             admirable site on this piece of ground, on an elevation of 
             seventy-five feet above the river and at a distance of a mile and 
             a quarter from the college.  He had from the very first desired it 
             for the Sisters.  Examined by the superior and the Sisters 
             themselves, there was found such a combination of advantages that 
             it was resolved to establish there, sooner or later, the residence 
             of said Society and their headquarters.