Two Oldest Schools, 1943. News Clipping of photos of Convent of Sacred Heart on 12th Street and Christian Brothers High School on Noyes Boulevard.
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The two oldest schools in St. Joseph are Catholic Institutions, but neither occupies its original site At the top is the Convent of the Sacred Heart, occupying a plot Messanie to Angelique, Twelfth to the alley between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. The picture insert is the structure built and opened in 1857. The main picture shows the convent as it is today with additions both right and left. The convent's history, found elsewhere in this issue, dicloses that the convent really opened several years later on South Fourth Street
The Christian Brothers High School is on North Noyes boulevard and was built under the espiscopate for the late Bishop Francis Gilfillan. Like the Sacred Heart, the brothers had an earlier building erected in 1859 but not used as a school until 1857 (error:1867). It was army quarters during the Civil War.
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