Religious Institutions 1

ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART

   This was a boarding school for primary and secondary Catholic and Protestant girls. The Academy had started in 1869 on west 6th Street. In 1874 they moved to Grandin Road. In October of 1876 they opened another school in the building you see below on Lafayette Ave. in Clifton. This was the home of William Neff who had made his fortune in pork packing. It had taken Swiss artisans two years to carve the woodwork, mantels, and stairway. The estate was called The Windings and was built in 1868. The estate was so costly to maintain that Neff could not afford to live there and had to sell it to the Academy. Due to economic reasons the school had to shut down and the  last class graduated in June of 1970. The buildings have been converted to condominiums.

1st School & Parish

                               
                                                                  Parlor / Dining Room

ACADEMY OF THE URSULINE

   The Ursuline Sisters of Brown County purchased this mansion at Oak St. & Reading Road from A. S. Winslow, who was the vice-president of the First National Bank, in 1906. The Academy is a private junior and senior high school for girls. In 1970 the school moved to Blue Ash.

               
                                                                                                        View from right side

CINCINNATI  MISSIONARY  TRAINING  SCHOOL

& ELIZABETH  GAMBLE  DEACONESS  HOME

                       
                         The Parlor                                                      Boy's Club Room                       Worker's Room  

  Deaconesses were Methodist women who had devoted their lives to church work. The home, first opened in 1888 on York Street in the West End, was a home and a place to train for these women. The building shown in the cards above were located in the West End at 1029 Wesley Ave. It was  razed in 1950 for the construction of the George W. Hays Elementary School.

GOD'S  BIBLE  SCHOOL

  Located at the corner of Young and Ringgold Sts. in Mt Auburn. It is (are you ready for this?) an interdenominational, independently operated, conservative evangelical institution that offers an accredited high school curriculum and 4 or 5 year programs in music, nursing, theology, Christian education, and missions. It was founded in 1900 by the Reverend Martin Wells Knapp (1853-1901). In his will Knapp left the school "to God". Well this did not set well with the courts and it ruled that God could not legally own land in Hamilton County. This resulted in the longest running case ever in Hamilton County Pleas Court. The fight was over whether the property was Knapp's personal property or a public charitable institution. Seven years later in 1907 it was declared a public institution to be administered by the courts. The school was turned over to its alumni on July 1, 1975. Receivership was terminated and the case was closed on April 27, 1982.
  The facilities now consist of 30 buildings. It also prints God's Revivalist, a bi-weekly religious publication. Many of these cards have been produced by the School. Most graduates enter the Christian Ministry.

           
Bird's-Eye-Views

   
Architects drawing for the Memorial Building

   The architects drawing above does not look at all like the finished building, but it was after all just a proposal.

               
                                                                                    Main Entrance                                        Administration Building

                       
Knapp Memorial Building/Tabernacle/Boy's Dormitory

                    
 Campus Scene                                  Mission       
                                                     328 - 330 George St.

                       
    Annex 2 and 3                            Annex 1                                          Thanksgiving Day

Camp Grounds

           
                                              Back of card on the left

The next seven cards are part of a set, I have no idea how many are in the set.

   
                                                Gods Revivalist printed here

1980s card of campus

MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH-ON-THE-OHIO

  Located on 219 acres high on the bluffs overlooking the Ohio River on Delhi Pike to the west of Cincinnati, Mount St. Joseph first opened in 1869. It is the mother house of the Sisters of Charity and a college and academy for young women. The academy and college give training and grant certificates and degrees in the arts and sciences, music, home economics, commerce and finance, teaching, and library training. Plus a 5 year course in nursing in cooperation with Good Samaritan Hospital. Seaton Hall was added in 1929.

                               
                          Overhead views of campus                                                                                    Campus

Mother House St. Joseph Convent

               
                                                                                             North View

                                               
                         Seaton Hall                                  Mother Elizabeth Ann Seaton        Blessed  Virgin

               
Driveway Leading to Mother House of Sisters of Charity

                       
                                                              Chapel                                     Rear View                            Chapel Corridor

               
Mater Dai Chapel                               Mater Dei Bell Tower                    

               
Margaret Hall Nursing Home               Sister's Infirmary               Drawing  of Margaret Hall     

                       
Our Lady Of Lourdes Shrine              St. Joseph Shrine                                                                                                                         

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Minims-             Recreation Grounds                            Pavilion                                        Dormitory                                     

   Minims are what the younger students at the academy were called.

               
                                            Regina Cottage

                
                            Art Studio                                      Seniors Recreation Room               Music Studio                       Class Room    

                            
Dining  Room                               Study  Hall                              China  Studio                             Railroad depot

   The steps on the right of the depot lead up to the motherhouse. The depot sat along the present day railroad tracks next to River Road. It was completely under water during the 1937 flood.

         
 A Group Of Students                    Byrne Cottage       

  The following is a set of nine photographs that I have obtained. Except for a couple of them, they are not identified. Obviously they are very old but I do not know when they were taken. What they show is pretty obvious but, except for one of the class photos, I do not know what classes they are. 

Mother House

                       
        Chapel                                        Chapel                                    Dinning Room                         Recreation Room

                       
     Class Room                              Older Class?                            10th Grade Class                        Younger Class ?

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