Vue du couvent du Cœur-Immaculé (Immaculate Heart Convent) à Los Angeles, avec son école primaire et son établissement d'enseignement secondaire
English: View of front facade of the Immaculate Heart College, a Catholic girls school on Franklin Avenue at the head of Western Avenue, 1905 Photograph of a view of front facade of the Immaculate Heart College, a Catholic girls school on Franklin Avenue at the head of Western Avenue, in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, California, in 1905. The three-story Mission Revival Style building features multicurved parapets, arched windows, several arcades, and dormer windows. About a dozen young trees are planted in the well-maintained yard. The dirt road in the foreground is lined with streetcar rails. "Immaculate Heart High School was founded in 1906 by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Catholic religious order of women who trace their origin to Olot, Spain, where they were founded by Father Masmitja de Puig in 1848. The sisters opened Cathedral School in Los Angeles in 1886. This became the first parochial school in the city. The sisters later purchased a fifteen-acre plot of land for $10,000 in the Hollywood Hills at Western and Franklin Avenues where they built a convent and a high school with boarding facilities. Transportation for students in the early 1900s consisted of wagons on dirt roads. During this time Western Avenue changed from a rutted wagon road to a major artery, Los Feliz from a cow path to a boulevard, and the surrounding olive and orange groves yielded first to California bungalows, then to apartment structures and business and industrial complexes. The school was originally called Immaculate Heart College, even though it began as a high school. The College portion opened in the following decade." -- unknown author. Call number: CHS-5522 Legacy record ID: chs-m3344; USC-1-1-1-3416; USC-1-1-1-4496 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-5522 Coverage date: 1905 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Hollywood; Los Angeles Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 5522 Microfiche number: 1-18-55; 1-31-45 Archival file: chs_Volume41/CHS-5522.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): educational facilities Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: 1905 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Schools; Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- Streets -- Sunset Boulevard; Los Angeles -- Schools -- Colleges & Universities -- General Format: glass plate negatives Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles Geographic subject (roadway): Western Avenue Subject (lcsh): Schools; Universities and colleges; Buildings; Transportation Subject: Immaculate Heart College