Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • Page 42

new home edition THE DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT AND LEADER new home edition Schools Over Half Century Old Still Serving Public mm i have tht Autos Parked in the Davenport Loop TW00FSCH00LS BUILT IN 1858 tion in the beautiful little chapel on the second floor. Meanwhile the frame building on Boies avenue was being remodeled tor a parish school and for a home for the sisters. The latter, throe in number, members of the Order FOUNDING OF ST. ALPHONSUS HERE ABSORBING TALE of the Holy Humility of Mary with STILL STANDING lii-a-Ninarters at uuumwu. arnvcu Jan.

7, 1003- Four days later the si-hnoi opened with an enrollment, of 21 children. The parish numbered at that time (17 families. Complete School Buildings. In April, 1910, work was begun Adams School Dates Back to 1843 When It Was Privately Managed. on the new school.

This building ing the work of his predecessors. Alter throe years of zealous add fruitful endeavor he was transierred to New Orleans and Rev. Putrid; L. Barrett took charge of the parish. During Father Barrett's service the interior of tho church was painted and decorated, the roof was newly shingled and other improvements made.

A kindergarten was also added to the At the close of his term of of-rice the parish numbered about 240 families. The school had an enrollment of about ISO childreD in the grades and in the kindergarten. Five Sisters of the Humility of Maiy teach in the school. The Redemptorist community at St. Alphonsus consists at present of ihe following members: Arery Rev.

1'Jthvard Mattingly, superior; RLerends Henry Beire Marina-duko Seymour, Henry Phillips, Joseph Gerven and John 0lim. A GENERAL NEED THEN Messrs. Carman Jellries have put store, at the corner of Brady and Fourth streets, for wdncti they are entitled t- public thanks. We wish other cituens would take the hint and do likewise. The Democrat, March 2S, 1SC2.

was completed in August. Alter four years of Caithtul activity. Father fiiiendlinu was transferred STONE SCHOOL IN 1853 to St. Joseph's church ra Denver. Hild.

who arrived in August. 1312. and was in charge of the parish until the summer of 1315. During his pastorate the brick church at the corner of Wellman and Boise Rev. Father Beil Arrives.

On April 2S, 1908, Rev. Joseph Beil, who was selected to start the new foundation, took up his lesi-dence in Davenport. After enjoying the hospitality of the Very Reverend Father 'Flannigan. pastor of the cathedral, for about two weeks. Father Beil rented a house at 513 Dittmer street.

At that time the parish was bounded ou the east by Howell street, the north by-Third street and Telegraph Road, ard on the south by the river. Westward the parish extended about 3'A miles toward Buffalo. On Sunday morning. May 17. the first services were held in an improvised chapel in the house on Dittmer street.

Twelve parii.l-.ion-ers attended. During Jlay Father Beil purchased five fifty-foot lots on Boies avenue near what is now Farragut street. On Juno 22 work was begun on the present rectory. Shortly after, the Fatheis succeeded in buying the lot and house on the confer of Boies avenue and Fremont streets and took possession of this place on August there to await the completion cf the rectory. On September 1H.

Rev Joseph Beil, having completed most of the preliminary work of the new Redemptorist foundation, left for Si. Louis and Rev. Augustine Ciuond-Iing, who had arrived the previous July, took charge SI. Alphonsus parish. By Noi ember the new rectory had progressed (.0 far thai services were held for the congrega Sixth and Warren Building Erected in the Year 1856.

Among the group cf 24 buildings, exclusive of the administration building, dovofed exclusively to jnublic school use in the city of Dav avenue was erected. Father Hud Parish Now Numbers 240 Families; School Now Numbers 180 Children. How the Redemptorist Fathers, an order founded in 17S2, founded St. Alphonsus parish in Davenport, is one of the most interesting chapters in local Catholic church his- In March. 1908, the Redemptorist Fathers formally accepted a foundation in the diocese 'Davenport.

Very Rev. Thomas Brown, tht superior ot the St. Louis province of the Redemptorist order, with his adviser, Rev. Joseph Beil, called on Bishop Davis and, after looking over and discussing the various sites offered them in the diocese decided to locate in the southwestern part of the city of Davenport. This section of the city was growing last at the.

time and gave promise of becoming a populous part of the city. Both Bishop Davis and Father Ityan, the pastor of St. Mary to which parish the entire west end ot the city be- enport, only two now standing also purchase.1 property on jjck-ion avenue, thus giving the Rc-domptoriBt Fathers the ownership of the entire sijuare block. July 17. 1915.

Rev. P. E. Foeister arrived to take charge of St. Alphonsus and Father Hild was transierred to St.

Louis. During Father Foeister's term cf office the organ and the staiDed glass windows were 'purchased. Many improvements were also made in the were existence when the district formed in 1S38. These two buildings ore the Jefferson school at Sivth and Warren streets, and the Adams school at Seventh and I'erry streets. The former was Lhandoned several years ago and is nn loncer need fnr MR.

ATKINS SPRUCES UP. Our friend" Chas. S. Watkins is making a handsome improvement if his property on the northeast corner of fourth and Harrison -treets, by putting up a Father Henry Schubert. i ceeded Father Foeister as the community and pastoi school purposes.

The Adams school The history of the Adams dates hack to 1S4S when it was Mr. Prescoll. The 'huHiMnK time Cor the opening of the new- street and Lincoln avenue, was also then lecated al Fourth and Perry looted at Sixth and Wi Three other buildings now ii ere built in the 'CDs. The: school semester in Septemboi Practically all of the schools, including the three aslungtor school. mediate schools and excepting of i-olfth street iissippi JIadison school, Main J-ocust street, and the school, West Thinl street in- Division street.

ISrtS. The Harream Fmirlii and pa-y was i.uili in 1.SV.L built during the same year, school, Sixteenth and Fillmore streets, was bunt in 1893 and remedied in 1902. Fillmore school. Fourth and Warren streets, was erected in 1S0S. Among the schools built since 1000 aie the j'ierce school.

East Twelfth street and Christie avenue: Buchanan school, Sitli and OaKes street; Johnson school, Locust street and Wilkes avenue: Grant school, Jlain and Hayes streets: the three intermediums. West. Young and the Sudlow in IfllS and 1919, and the two new-grade schools. Garfield. Twenty-ninth street and Arlington avenue.

schools, have beer, reaiodrlea ed to each of. the intcriuert! schools this voir at a cost of 000. The present high school completed in 1907. An Indust Arts building for the manual tr mg department was later erec at the corner of Eleventh and Jl built ot oak timbers sawed or hewed at the Duck Creek mill. In lRr3 the present stone school house, heralded as an architectural triumph, was elected at Seventh and Perrv sir-els.

a cost of fS.OOO. This school building, the oloesl in the city, is still in use. it has boon rerotlelcd from time to time but its general architectural linos are practically the same as the original building erected in school was formerly located at Fifth i.nd Scott streets in a iittlc frame slraeture This ii: Two years later the school was moved tn I'lnrd slieet between r.ajnes and Brom streets, and ill cf, the Polk school. Eighth "aiai, recta, in 1S7S. Lincoln school.

Seventh rlv ir.e high school. Iowa streets, was tilt in Tyler enmb that, normits the eust anil High streets. 11 1SI12 and remodeled in or scnool. Fifteenth and eets. was built in 1S97 -al of the teeth for replace- McKn ast tw or cleaning has been paicnr- isr.o ent building was amed schools will be completed in II KISSEL II 1 CUSTOM BUI LT Jj II THE PHAETON, $1685 ii jl The Phaeton offers, at a price amazingly low, all the smartness 1 MM of true custom building, all the excellence of operating mechanism I 1 which are so distinctively Kissel attributes.

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