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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. Angela Academy, Carroll, Iowa, Saint Angela Academy, St. Angela Domestic Science Institute, Kuemper Catholic High School, Kuemper Catholic School
Description: Looking northeast at a four-story brick and stone building founded by Father Joseph Kuemper as the St. Angela Domestic Science Institute in 1908, an all-girls boarding high school in Carroll, Iowa, to educate young women in the art of Christian homemaking. The school was later renamed the St. Angela Academy and closed in 1954. Soon after Father Leo Lenz led the effort to building a regional Catholic high school and a large addition was constructed and attached to the west side of the St. Angela building. The Kuemper Catholic School is located at 198 South East Street, Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:13559

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