Built in 1921 and loved ever since, A Scholarly Retreat is an inhabited house in University Heights. 18 minutes to the Stadium and 15 to Eddy Street on foot. You will be cocooned in William Morris wallpaper as you sit on a pew from the Basilica, soaked in lamplight. Two bedrooms, one bath — with a separate toilet and shower for privacy — and rooms that make you want to stay longer than you planned. Some places you visit. This one you return to.
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A Scholarly Retreat
University Heights, South Bend
The house was built in 1921 and has belonged to the same family ever since. You can feel that when you walk in. William Morris wallpaper. Rooms lined with books that have been read and maps of places that have been visited. A striped ceiling painted by someone who cared. Lamps that cast the kind of light that makes everything look like it did before fluorescence was invented. It is not a decorated house. It is an inhabited one.
University Heights is the neighborhood Notre Dame families have always known. The Stadium is eighteen minutes on foot. The main campus entrance, fifteen. Saint Mary's College, twenty-five. Holy Cross, fifteen. Eddy Street, fifteen. There is a driveway for two cars and the street outside is quiet.
Two bedrooms. One bath, with a separate toilet and shower for privacy. A dining room with rose-colored walls, a long sideboard, and a pew from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart along one wall. You will know what that means or you will learn. A sitting room where the conversation goes later than anyone intended. A kitchen that is ready for whatever the weekend calls for.
Three minutes from the door the riverwalk begins, and if you follow it you will find yourself in downtown South Bend twenty minutes later without having noticed the time passing.
There is also a garden, for the morning or the evening or both.
The Particulars
The house sleeps four in proper beds — a king in the primary bedroom and a queen in the second — with a pullout double available if needed. Everything is on one floor.
The kitchen is stocked the way a kitchen should be. Nespresso Vertuo machine, French press, moka pot, tea kettle. Coffee and tea provided. Every piece of cookware and bakeware you would actually reach for, including an air fryer. Charcoal grill in the garden with everything you need to use it. Filtered drinking water at the sink, water softener throughout, ice maker in the freezer.
Bathrooms are stocked with Malin & Goetz. Notepad and pen by every bed and at every desk. Hair dryer, iron, ironing board. There is no washer or dryer on site, but a local laundry service offers pickup and dropoff — details in the house book.
The second bedroom has a Peloton and a water rowing machine, free to use.
Self check-in via keypad. Full details sent before arrival.
Some places you visit. This one you return to.
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Check-in is at noon and checkout at 3pm, with flexibility on both when the calendar allows — just ask in advance and we will do our best to accommodate.
From time to time we are able to offer Notre Dame football tickets for purchase. Inquire when booking and we will let you know what we have available.
A Scholarly Retreat is a non-smoking property. No pets, please. The neighborhood is quiet and residential — the kind of place where people have lived for a long time and intend to keep doing so.
