Religious Institutions 2

SAINT FRANCIS SEMINARY

   Located in Mount Healthy it was, as stated on several of the cards, a preparatory seminary for boys and young men aspiring to the priesthood in the Franciscan Order.
   Due to the growing German Catholic population in Cincinnati, Priests were needed to tend to their religious needs. A four year high school seminary course for boys was opened in 1858 in downtown Cincinnati at Liberty and Vine. In 1924, the St. Francis Seminary moved to 127 acres north of Mt. Healthy. The seminary was closed in 1980.
   Of the 4,500 graduates, 650 became priests, 20 became professed brothers, and 6 became bishops.

               
                                                                                                         Mural paintings in the main lobby

               
    Five cards of the chapel

1910 Graduates

MT. NOTRE  DAME  ACADEMY

   Mount Notre Dame began in 1860 as a boarding school for girls. It soon became well-known for its excellence in education (the two daughters of Civil War general William T. Sherman were students). Boys were admitted in 1929. After the boarding school closed in 1935, the school flourished and expanded as an academy for all grades from kindergarten through high school. In 1956, upon the request of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, Mount Notre Dame Academy became a diocesan high school. Its name was changed to Mount Notre Dame High School. Experiencing rapid growth the school moved to its present location (711 East Columbia Ave.) in 1965.

                       
                                                                                                        Entrance to Grounds

                       
The grounds

                       
 St. Anthony's Lawn                                                                                   Chapel             

                           
          Gymnasium                              North Wing                            Maple Avenue                      Scene in Woods

                            
         Grotto                                      Northern Descent                                          Guardian Angel

SISTERS  OF  NOTRE  DAME  CONVENT

               
Convent of Sisters of Notre Dame  6th near Broadway

MT. ST. MARY'S TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

  St. Mary's Training school educated children, ages three to sixteen, who were brought in by their parents or sent by the Catholic charities. Many were "problem" girls sent by the juvenile court. This site located in Price Hill at Warsaw and Grand Avenues opened in 1904 by the Sisters of the Good Shepard. The bulk of their income came from the operation of workshops-laundries, sewing rooms where shirts were produced, and knitting rooms. Complaints were received, and confirmed, of long hours and mistreatment. The archdiocese intervened in several instances to improve conditions in the workshops. In June 1949 the school merged with Girls' Town, another temporary shelter for "problem" girls. That facility, seen below, on North Bend Road in Finneytown was remodeled to accommodate the 112 girls that both agencies then were serving.

         
  Orchestra                                  May Pole

Girls' Town

SAINT CLARE CONVENT

 Provincial House and Novitiate of the Sisters of the Poor of Saint Francis.

ST. GREGORY SEMINARY

    Located at 6616 Beechmont Ave. on 87 acres in Mt. Washington the original structure, seen on the left in the first card was built in 1891-1895. It was originally occupied by the seminary school until 1904 when the Mount Saint Mary Seminary moved in. They stayed until 1923 when Saint Gregory reoccupied the premises. The newer part of the institution seen in the other cards was constructed in 1929. The seminary prepares Catholic youth for the priesthood. 

BETHANY  HOME

   Bethany Home, located on Albion Ave. south of Oak Street in Glendale, was the mother house and convent of the Community of the Transfiguration. This was a religious order for the women of the Episcopal Church.

           
Name is misspelled.                                                          

INSTITUTUM  DIVI  THOMAE

                     
    Administration Bldg.                       McNicholas Hall                    Rookwood  Pottery Bldg.

   The Institutum Divi Thomae was established in 1935 by the Archbishop of Cincinnati, the Most Reverend John T. McNicholas. For the first 6 years of its existence the Institutum Divi Thomae was housed in the St. Gregory Seminary on Beechmont Avenue. In 1941 they moved into the mansion in East Walnut Hills at 1840-42 Madison Road seen in the 1st card. This building was next to McNicholas Hall (2nd card) and other campus buildings. The IDT was a nationally known center of Scientific research. The faculty consisted of full-time research professors and lecturers in specialized fields. Its student body never had more than 30 students. They were chosen by competitive examinations from candidates showing special promise as creative scientists. Much of the schools income came from donations, consulting fees for services rendered by staff members, and from earnings made from commercially useful discoveries. The school's primary purpose was to train and develop outstanding research workers. Their main area of research was in the search for a cure for cancer.
   The 3rd card above shows the IDT using the Rookwood building for their labs after the pottery company had closed its doors.

CONVENT OF THE GOOD SHEPARD

Price Hill

SAINT JOHN CONVENT

31 East Ninth

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