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[St. John the Baptist School.]

1919

St. John the Baptist School

[St. John the Baptist School.]

IMAGE DATE1919
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St. John the Baptist School, September 5, 1919.

The school connected to the church of St. John the Baptist began in 1870 with 50 children educated in a space in a hotel on Sixth Avenue. The building seen here, which housed the monastery and school, was constructed in 1872 in the Collegiate Gothic style. It served as the church school through the mid 20th century. In 1974 the building was replaced by the brown brick, Brutalist Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, which currently still stands, though has been defunct since 2014.

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