 Before the Main Building at the University burned down in the great fire of 1879 it hosted a Manual Labor School (founded in 1843), that was then moved after the fire in a location near currently Walsh Hall.A few years later, the Manual Labor School was moved on wheels to the present location of Badin Hall.The temporary structure was substituted with brick structure (the one still standing) and renamed St. Joseph Hall, and hosted the St. Joseph's Industrial School' and was open in November 1897.