The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-10-26


will be maple. The walls throughout
will be plastered and tinted to get the
most approved light effects for the
eyes of the pupils. All trimmings will
be of light terra Gotta. The doorsills
and outside steps will be of Minnesota
granite. The rooms on the first and
second floors will be thirteen feet
high. The basement wherein will be
located the main lavatories will be
eleven feet high and we'll lighted.
A twelve foot passage will divide the
basement into two longitudinal Sec
tions suitable for bowling alleys. Sani-
tary drinking fountains and lavatories
will be installed on every floor and
artificial ventilation will keep an am
pie supply of fresh air in every room
and corridor. The work on the base
ment walls was begun only this month
and now busy workmen and the huge
piles of building material about them
give promise of the splendid school
which is to open next September.
The plans and specifications for the
school building were prepared by Mr..
E. L. Masqueray, the well-known ar
chitect of the new Cathedral of st.
Paul and the Pro-Cathedral of Mime
apolis.,
The Fourth in Order of Time.
The new Pro-Cathedral School now
in course of erection is in reality the
fourth to be built by the people of
the Immaculate Conception parish.
Their zeal for Catholic education is
indicated by the fact that their first
school was erected before the parish
was able to build a church In De-
cember, 1866, when the only parish in
Minneapolis was that of St. Anthony
of Padua, Bishop Grace authorized
Reverend John McDermott, the pastor
of st. Anthony's, to purchase lots at
Third Street. During the following
year Reverend Felix Tissot erected a
school building on the lots. 1t was
frame structure with one classroom
on the first floor and two smaller ones
on the second. Here the Sisters of
st. Joseph, from st. Anthony's paro-
chial school taught the boys and
girls living on the west side of the
Mississippi. Soon an addition was
built to the rear of the school--a
rough frame structure in which were
placed two rows of benches and an
altar. This was the first church of the
Immaculate Conception parish. Large
folding doors connected it with the
lower school room so that the latter
could be used by the congregation at
the Sunday services. Subsequently
the first pastor of the parish, Rever
end James McGolrick, now Bishop of
Duluth, secured separate schools for
the boys and girls. The Sisters con-
tinued to teach the girls in the
original building, while the pastor
rented hall on First Street South
where for a time Peter Mccormick
and Owen J. Mccarthy taught the
boys.
In the meantime lots we're secured
on the corner of Ninth Street and
and Eighth Avenue South and a
school building was erected. Here the
boys of the parish attended for several
years until the building was destroyed
by fire. In 1879 the original school
building at Third Avenue North and
Third Street was torn down and the
Catholic Association Hall was erected
on the site. Here the Sisters taught
the girls in one part of the building
and in the other part a lay teacher
had charge of the boys.
In 1883, with the cooperation of the
Crusaders, large temperance organi-
zation, gymnasium costing $4,000
was built as an addition to the school.
This became later a part of the I'm
maculate Conception School as it now
stands 1t has served the parish for
nearly thirty years and now that the
new Pro-Cathedral is approaching
completion it must give place to
more modern structure, larger and
better adapted to the needs of the
time.