CDU's HOme In Virginia

While CDU's faculty and students live and work all over the world, the school’s administrative home is located in the Bishop Thomas J. Welsh House in Hamilton, Virginia.The building, formerly know as the Hamilton House, is located about 50 miles west of Washington, DC.

The house, built during the eighteenth century, played an important role in the Civil War serving as a supply depot, meeting place, and hideout for the famous Mosby’s Rangers. Rooms were added and at the turn of the century, the house was a summer hotel. Before CDU purchased the building, a private kindergarten filled the rooms of this historic building for thirty-one years. On March 2, 1998, the building became The Bishop Thomas Welsh House, the first in the Diocese of Arlington to be named for its founding bishop. This building is now home to the Schools of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and the School of Continuing Education.