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Title: Catholic school, Early, Iowa, Sacred Heart School
Description: Looking at a three-story brick schoolhouse in Early, Iowa, built in 1913 at a cost of $14,000. The school offered a 12-year course and the Sisters of Mercy from Wilkes-Barre, Penn., came to teach and lived in the living quarters on the third floor of the school. Number 5.
PID: grinnell:16012

Title: Sacred Heart Academy, Ackley, Iowa
Description: Two story brick building with a tower. Sacred Heart Academy was a private Catholic school which opened in 1877, staffed by two Presentation sisters and two laywomen.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14293

Title: St. Patrick's Academy, Danbury, Iowa
Description: This St. Patrick's Academy building, built in 1908 by C.F. Mayer, a contractor from Humboldt, Iowa, replaced the white wooden academy built in 1887 due to lack of space. The new academy had a full basement and four floors. It was heated with steam heat and electricity. The first floor held high school classroom and an auditorium; the third floor held rooms for the nuns, the fourth floor or attic had several rooms for roomers who stayed at the convent. The building was destroyed by fire in 1910. 1908 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16962