Wayland Academy's campus is located near downtown Beaver Dam. It consists of north and south halves divided by
Hwy. 33. North Campus, the school's original land, is home to most of the campus buildings. It has separate buildings for different academic faculties, dormitory space, administration, and student life. South Campus, a former fairground, consists of athletic fields and the school's field house.
Academic facilities The Academic Building and Swan Library are two of the newest buildings on campus, completed in 1989. The Academic building houses the departments of mathematics, English, history, and modern and classical languages. Swan Library contains a student computer lab in addition to the 21,000 volume collection, including roughly 60 periodicals, and having first issue copies of several major magazines such as National Geographic. In recent years Kimberly Chapel has served primarily as home to the music department and as a meeting place for the student body. Built in 1958, the chapel is used for weekly assemblies and chapel services, as well as the annual
Festival of Lessons and Carols, modeled after the original service at
King's College in
Cambridge,
England. The chapel contains practice rooms and music studios on the lower level, while the chapel proper, with a
Steinway Model B piano and a three-manual
Moeller pipe organ, often functions as a music performance space,. Discovery Hall was dedicated in 1971 and is home to the science department. In addition to laboratories and classrooms, it contains a lecture hall and an
observatory.
Residence halls and student life facilities The oldest building on campus is Wayland Hall. Originally constructed in 1855, it was for a time the sole building serving the school, and housed classrooms, bedrooms, a chapel, and a kitchen. It has been remodeled several times, and now serves as a dormitory for first-year and sophomore boys. The building was renovated in 2009, creating a modernized dorm with more comfortable living spaces for its residents. This building remains the school's most recognizable structure due to its four large
Corinthian pillars, each of which represents a fundamental element in the Wayland community: Scholarship, Faith, Health, and Service. Wayland Hall is the first building along the campus's semicircular drive; the second is the Lindsay Gymnasium complex. The original gymnasium dates from 1899 and has since been converted to a student union, dance hall, and art studio. The Sol Wolfe 1934 Memorial Pool and Lindsay Gym are adjacent to the original gym building. Warren Cottage was originally constructed as a girls' residence hall in 1888. It has received several additions and renovations. It served as a dormitory for first-year and sophomore girls until 2022. Its lower level contains Pickard Dining Hall, a day students' lounge, and the bookstore and post office. The twin dormitories, Glen Dye and Ella Dye, opened in the 1960s and house junior and senior students. The men live in Ella Dye and the women in Glen Dye. With the opening of Burnham Hall in 2022, Glen Dye became the home of first-year and sophomore girls. Student rooms are arranged in suite fashion, with two rooms connected by a private bathroom. Both dorms recently underwent extensive interior remodeling and furniture replacement. Burnham Hall, a residence hall for upper class girls, is the newest building on campus completed in 2022. Completed in 1901, Roundy Hall was originally a music building and chapel built partially from funds donated by the Roundy family of
Roundy's Foods. It now houses administrative offices, including the president's office, the Office of Admissions, the CFO, and the Vice-President of Development. Other buildings on North Campus include the Head of School's House and Schoen House, the student health center. The primary building on the South Campus is the field house, built in 1967. Adjacent to it are the school's eleven
tennis courts and athletic fields. An additional field, Brown Field, is located on North Campus and is used for football and field hockey. ==Images==