Notable Architecture

ID: 1726 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve ~ Date: c. 1910
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Notable Architecture

Although early classes took place in a home, the school soon moved into its impressive Victorian campus surrounded by magnolia trees and an iron post fence, as shown in the circa 1910 photograph of the exterior of the academy. 

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By Geoff Hunt
On the corner of Eighth Street and Washington Avenue once stood a Catholic school and convent that taught thousands of students during its years of operation from 1874 to 1946. The Academy of the Sacred Heart received its name partially because the…