Toussaint Hall
Located in the Pioneer Village, Toussaint Hall houses over 160 freshmen students primarily in two-bedroom/four-person pods, with a limited number of single rooms. The building is staffed with six student Resident Success Assistants and one professional Residence Hall Director. The Living & Learning Communities (LLCs) are located in this hall.
Building Amenities
- Security desk at main entrance
- External and internal card access for residents
- Laundry facilities on each floor
- Game Room with vending machines
- Shared gender-specific common shower rooms
- Two atrium-style common rooms
- Group & quiet study rooms on each floor
Room Amenities
- Single and quad occupancy in two room pod
- Bathroom including a toilet and sink per pod
- Window coverings
- Proximity card reader to each pod
- Twin-sized bed and mattress (one per resident)
- Desk and chair (one per resident)
- Three drawer dresser (two per resident)
- Walk-in or built-in closets
- Built-in storage
- Cable television jack (one per bedroom)
- Air conditioning/heating unit
- Wireless internet access
- Micro-fridge unit (one per pod)
Meet the Staff
Jennifer Moran
Area Coordinator
203-416-3464
moranj2@sacredheart.edu
Resident Success Assistant
- Meghan Oliver (SRSA)
- Cait MacDonald
- Matthew Ramos
- Daniel Shkreli
- Sophia Dourdoulakis
- Caroline Vigneault
Who is Pierre Toussaint?
Pierre Toussaint
1766-1853
Pierre Toussaint was a freed slave who became a noted philanthropist. Toussaint’s owners brought him as a slave to New York City from the French colony of St. Domingue in 1787. He gained freedom in 1807 after their deaths and took on the name Toussaint in honor of François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (also known as Toussaint L’Ouverture), the man who led the revolution that established Haiti before his death in 1803.
Within a few years, Toussaint married and became a well-known philanthropist, having earned a good living and developed valuable connections as a hairdresser to the city’s elite. He and his wife Juliette, also a former slave, turned their home into an orphanage and established a credit bureau, employment agency and a refuge for priests and poor travelers. He contributed money and helped raise more for the Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Mulberry Street in New York City. In the late 1900s, Archbishop Terence Cooke proposed Toussaint for sainthood, at which point his remains were brought to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on 5th Avenue to be interred below the main altar among New York City’s bishops. Pope John Paul II beatified Toussaint in 1996, and the process for possible canonization continues.