Wayland Academy, Wisconsin

The Academic Building and Swan Library are 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.

Students on the steps of Wayland Hall

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.[6] 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.[7]

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 a newer gymnasium housing the school's theater are adjacent to the original gym building.

Warren Cottage was originally constructed as a girls' residence hall in 1888 and has since received several additions and renovations. It is still a dormitory for first-year and sophomore girls, and 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. Student rooms are arranged in a suite-like fashion, with two rooms connected by a private bathroom. Both dorms recently underwent extensive interior remodeling and furniture replacement.

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 President's House and Schoen House, the student health center.

The primary building on the 26-acre (110,000 m²) 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.

• The Victory Bell is a large bell located near the middle of campus. It is rung following athletic victories, the last class period for seniors before graduation, and any other significant cause for celebration.
• The Axe Hunt is an annual event held in late spring, where students from the graduating class hide a wooden axe somewhere on the Wayland campus. The junior students follow clues hidden throughout the city of Beaver Dam to find the axe before a set time. If the juniors find the axe, they receive a week of relaxed dress code.
• Each year the school year has begun with orientation, a weekend of difficult team-work based games and activities. The games are run by returning faculty and students. This event dates back more than fifty years.
• Every year ends with a Senior Chapel, when Senior students sing some, give inspirational speeches, and reflect on their past time at Wayland to the underclassmen.

• Cyrus Amir-Mokri, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions
• George Edwin Taylor, first African American to run for the United States Presidency[12]
• Michael E. Burke, congressman
• Daniel E. La Bar, Wisconsin State Representative
• John McConnell, special assistant to the President and Vice President of the United States
• John Mellen Thurston, former U.S. Senator from Nebraska
• Ernest B. Price, American diplomat and academic
• Claire B. Bird, Wisconsin State Senator
• Robert Goetsch, Wisconsin State Representative
• George F. Merrill, Wisconsin State Senator
• Charles Pettibone, Wisconsin State Senator
• Jesse Clason, Wisconsin State Representative and physician[13]

• Ric Flair, professional wrestler
• Emerson "Pink" Hawley, professional baseball
• Addie Joss, Baseball Hall of Fame member
• Tom Nissalke, professional basketball coach
• Jimmy Chin, professional climber and mountaineer

• Ray Patterson, former General Manager of the Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets
• Frederick D. Underwood, businessman

• Jensen Buchanan, former soap opera star of Another World and General Hospital
• Donald Downs, professor of political science and law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Zona Gale, author and playwright, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• Susan Peterson, former NBC and CBS foreign correspondent