After almost a year of nominations and online voting, the American people have spoken and declared their choice for the 2001 America’s Best Restroom Award. The contest and the awards are sponsored by the sanis brand of hygiene and well-being services.

So where is America’s best public restroom? In the heart of the country, on a college campus, amid the storied halls of a famous institution. Call it the luck of the Irish, but a facility at the University of Notre Dame was the voters’ choice in 2001.