  Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 794 Registered: 02-2007 |
max thanks very much ...on the update for GA and St. Brendan's ...went to both as a kid... | ||
Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 795 Registered: 02-2007 |
oh yes ...nice to see them become a house of worship... | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 195 Registered: 07-2006 |
Max, I will check at the Library of Michigan for the beginnings of Salesian. Girls Catholic and Salesian sort of vanished at the end of the l960s. Does anyone know what happened to Benedictine? It was on the west side, and I'm thinking it became St. Martin de Porres H.S., but maybe not. | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 197 Registered: 07-2006 |
To maxcarey, I hope you have the time and opportunity to add more pictures of churches and schools to the thread here! We appreciate it all, I'm sure. | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 198 Registered: 07-2006 |
Thanks, maxcarey, for posting all the great pictures of the schools and churches! I hope you can continue when you have free time and the conditions are right. | ||
Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me Post Number: 11 Registered: 08-2007 |
Salesian High School was located on Harper east of Woodward and west of John R. Detroit Cathedral High School was near the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral just east of Woodward Ave. I am not sure when either of those high schools closed. St. Joseph High School closed in 1964, the last graduating class. St. Joe's and De La Salle both had the Christian Brothers as the primary teachers. St. Joe's, Cathedral and Salesian may have been the smallest of the all-boy hgih schools. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 93 Registered: 04-2007 |
Max Carey, As a graduate of St. Jude elem. and Notre Dame HS (71) I appreciate the pictures and memories recorded in this post. Thank you. | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 84 Registered: 08-2007 |
I second that, as a graduate of St. Jude elem. and Notre Dame HS (87). | ||
Taj920 Member Username: Taj920 Post Number: 248 Registered: 01-2004 |
Swiburn: Benedictine remained open until a few years ago; it is now a charter. Old Redford, I think. | ||
Maxcarey Member Username: Maxcarey Post Number: 169 Registered: 07-2006 |
Thanks all for resurrecting this thread and reminding me of unfinished business...posting some pictures! A while ago, I indicated I would post some of the movement at St. Brendan's, Guardian Angels and Bishop Gallagher. It appears that the Colin Powell Academy will be moving into the site occupied by Bishop Gallagher/Trinity Catholic High School. Didn't see much action, but this sign is now present: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1243886297&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1243884485&size=l At St. Brendan's it appears that the charter school is gone and the original sign is present once again: 2006: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=457124711&size=l Today: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1243874261&size=l The church is now being used and they have done some landscaping, making the original cornerstone visible again: 2006: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=457124623&size=l Today: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1243876083&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1243878021&size=l At Guardian Angels, the engraved facing of the church has been covered with a new sign: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244738360&size=l For you Notre Dame grads, I struggled with these pictures, simply because they are of the school after it closed and to me personally, it is great shame that the school suffered the fate that it did. These were taken in July 2006: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244011767&size=o http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244013623&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244013825&size=o http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244014023&size=o http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244872642&size=o http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244014649&size=o http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244873088&size=o http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1244014179&size=o | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 205 Registered: 07-2006 |
Thanks for taking the time and gas money to get these wonderful photos for us. I remember when Notre Dame was "the" Catholic School-they had these big dances and Detroit radio station disc jockeys worked them. | ||
Margaret Member Username: Margaret Post Number: 71 Registered: 06-2007 |
I remember those Notre Dame dances! we boogied there too...they were the BEST! | ||
Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 969 Registered: 02-2007 |
I hope this is not totally a stupid question...was declining enrollments the reason for Regina and ND to close? Didn't they get a lot of students from Harper Woods and East Detroit?... | ||
Maxcarey Member Username: Maxcarey Post Number: 172 Registered: 07-2006 |
Well, Regina didn't close, but their enrollment had been declining prior to the move to Warren. ND was down to about 300 students in their final year and had been on the decline for about a decade. There were many kids from HPW and ED back then, as well as NE Detroit. Like the neighborhood, as people moved away, the enrollment wasn't replaced. | ||
Gibran Member Username: Gibran Post Number: 970 Registered: 02-2007 |
Thanks...I thought HPW/ED would have had enough to sustain it...it is so sad to see schools and churches close ...was glad to see that new life was brought to GA and ST Brendens...the churches of Detroit were so beautiful...and thanks for all your time on this thread... | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 85 Registered: 08-2007 |
I never had an appreciation for the architectural style of Brendan's. Due to the beauty of St. Jude's, I find most churches ugly. Maxcarey, Thanks for sharing the pics of ND. I can't believe that the French room still had the painting on the wall that was there when i studied French. (85-86) | ||
Maxcarey Member Username: Maxcarey Post Number: 173 Registered: 07-2006 |
Gibran and Jazz I truly enjoy documenting this quickly passing era as a by-product of Catholic education myself. Everybody has their niche, I guess. Sad to say, but there are NO catholic schools remaining in either HPW or ED. St. Peter's, Queen of Peace, Gallagher, Regina, ND even Lutheran East - all gone. ED- While they never had a high school, St. Veronica, St. Barnabas and St. Basil all had elementary schools and they are gone too. Add the Detroit elementary schools such as Brendan's Guardian Angels, St. Matthew's, St. Juliana, St. Philomena, St. David, St. John Berchman's and high schools Austin and Servite and you are talking about ALOT of vanishes schools in a 20-30 year period. Add parishes on top of that and it truly has become a passing of an era. Jazz - Compared to St. Jude's, I agree with you, most churches are fairly blah. I didn't realize that the French room's history went back 20 years, it looked in remarkable shape for its age. The Notre Dame thing was tough for me personally, since that and Regina represented a passing of an era for me. For a kid that grew up in this area in the late 1980s, the closure of ND slapped me in the face that what I grew up with is no longer there. Beacon East closed, Eastland Twin was torn down, Beefcarver is gone, many of the stores along Kelly have moved, and so on. Some people move, others pass away. Time goes on and sometimes for the best, but that doesn't mean I have to like it  (Message edited by maxcarey on August 27, 2007) | ||
Shirlselects Member Username: Shirlselects Post Number: 2 Registered: 08-2007 |
Does anyone remember St. Dominics Parish on Trumbull and either Warren or Forrest? I forget which street. When you walk you just know where you're going and don't pay attention to street names. I looked up the name St. Dominics for an address and came up blank, so probably the Church and school are both gone. I didn't think they were that old but that was 50 years ago and I wasn't old either. Shirl | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6408 Registered: 02-2004 |
It's amazing that most Catholic Schools in Detroit are disappearing in a alarming rate. At least some Parochial Schools in SW Detroit still survives like Holy Redeemer High School. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6409 Registered: 02-2004 |
I was wondering are they any East Side Catholic Schools left in Detroit? | ||
Maxcarey Member Username: Maxcarey Post Number: 176 Registered: 07-2006 |
East Catholic Elementary (at St. Jude's) is still open. I don't think that Genesis Catholic (at St. Raymond's) is. St. Bartholomew is still open too, but that's a stretch to call it a truly "east side" school. | ||
Maxcarey Member Username: Maxcarey Post Number: 177 Registered: 07-2006 |
The front of St. Dominic's church faced Trumbull on the corner of Trumbull/Warren. The church/parish closed in 2005. The elementary school closed in 1969 and according to the information I have merged into/with St. Leo's. The church: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1259998667&size=l Driving along Warren: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1260002505&size=l The school (which faced Warren): http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1260004351&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1260861174&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1260855936&size=l http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo om.gne?id=1260002673&size=o | ||
14509glenfield Member Username: 14509glenfield Post Number: 1170 Registered: 05-2006 |
Max Nice photos. Perchance do you have any inside photos of the "old" GA church? After the "present one" opened in late 1960, they converted (not immediately) the old church into the gymnasium for hoops and functions. 1985. Had a 25 year grade school Class Reunion in the old one. Fastest, "most bestest", 4 1/2 hours ever spent. Class of '60 ... last class graduating out of the old church. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 98 Registered: 04-2007 |
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/ i/image/image-idx?sid=c8d5fdc1 cc58b5eb50467d0a02f4b8f9&q1=st .+jude&rgn1=vmc_ti&op2=And&q2= &rgn2=vmc_ti&type=boolean&med= 1&view=thumbnail&c=vmc st. jude church circa 1955 virtual city wsu | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 99 Registered: 04-2007 |
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/ i/image/image-idx?sid=6cbb3771 de6661c85ba1e454062a7ee3&q1=no tre+dame+high+school&rgn1=vmc_ ti&op2=And&q2=&rgn2=vmc_ti&typ e=boolean&med=1&view=thumbnail &c=vmc Can anyone identify the lone priest in the cafeteria photo at Notre Dame HS? | ||
Swingline Member Username: Swingline Post Number: 886 Registered: 11-2003 |
Max said: quote:The closing of Notre Dame is perhaps the most tragic of any Catholic school closing that occurred in the Archdiocese in the past 30 years. It was thoroughly preventable had the Marists and/or the Archdiocese (after the Marists turned over control) organized a development plan in a timely and effective way that tapped the thousands of alumni and family in the area to establish an endowment. Places like Country Day and Cranbrook have amassed tens of millions for endowments. A small fraction of that kind of amount could have sustained Notre Dame, and allowed it to survive with an enrollment of 300-400. With proper and timely planning, an adequate endowment could have been achieved. Instead, they ran deficits for too long and the Archdiocese pulled the plug. There's also a good chance that Regina would have stayed put had Notre Dame remained afloat. Almost as sad will be the underperforming charter schools that will eventually occupy these buildings. Detroit families will quickly fill up these "free" schools and undoubtedly get the education for their children that they paid for. | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 88 Registered: 08-2007 |
Great photos. I can only think of two priests that may have been around at that time. The first is the great Father Bryson and the second is Father Oulette (SP?). Oulette was at the worst a pedophile but at the least highly inappropriate. Unfortunately, when I was there, they hid his behavior. May he rot in hell. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 100 Registered: 04-2007 |
Thought this was noteworthy to pass on An item from Jim Mandl (editor of the Notre Dame Alumni News Letter) 1. South Shore Educational Academy - That is the name that will be on the front of the old Notre Dame building. I have met with the new owners of the building. The AOD sold the school to a Baptist Church from Detroit - East Lake Baptist. They plan to open the building as a charter high school sometime in September. Yes, this month. They allowed me and my dad to walk through the school, take photos, and rescue some more items that were left as 'junk' by another group that was permitted access to the building last spring. We recovered items su ch as football game films from the early 1960's through 2005, photos, yearbooks, plaques, and other items we felt had historical significance. There were about 30 broken windows, a musty smell in the basement, and a lot of crickets running around, but for sitting vacant for over two years, the building seemed to be in pretty good shape. They will be using the old rectory as a boarding facility so kids from all areas of Detroit may attend the school. I will have more information to pass along about the old school in the very near future. | ||
Phaggood Member Username: Phaggood Post Number: 6 Registered: 01-2006 |
> I was wondering are they any East Side Catholic Schools left in Detroit? St. Clare Montefalco is still open on Mack at Whittier in GPP. Okay, so it's not *in* Detroit, but it's just across the street. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 109 Registered: 04-2007 |
Phaggood, East Side Catholic (previously St. Jude Elem) is still on the east side. |
