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Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
ambrosemario
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Date: February 20, 2015 08:28PM
It's almost funny now to think back about how my Dad used to say the Catholic Church was wealthy because of all the property it owned; churches, schools, convents, rectories, etc. Now much of that property is pretty much worthless. Actually, it’s not funny.
Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
NipTu
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Date: March 02, 2015 01:30AM
Does anyone have a picture of Saint Carthage on Yale?
Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: March 03, 2015 08:08PM
ambrosemario Wrote:
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> It's almost funny now to think back about how my
> Dad used to say the Catholic Church was wealthy
> because of all the property it owned; churches,
> schools, convents, rectories, etc. Now much of
> that property is pretty much worthless. Actually,
> it’s not funny.
I think the land is fairly valuable, even if the buildings aren't.
There are a lot of vanished churches in Hyde Park, one, Episcopal iirc at 56th and Blackstone, the vicarage is still there and the lot is their yard and another at 56th and Dorchester, same corner, which is now a high-rise. St. Stephens in the 5600 block of Blackstone is close to gone.
I used to work in the convent/nuns residence for an RC girls high school (long gone) at Taylor and Damen.
Also numerous lost Synagogues in the inner city as well, Sinai in Hyde Park for instance, is now townhouses.
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> It's almost funny now to think back about how my
> Dad used to say the Catholic Church was wealthy
> because of all the property it owned; churches,
> schools, convents, rectories, etc. Now much of
> that property is pretty much worthless. Actually,
> it’s not funny.
I think the land is fairly valuable, even if the buildings aren't.
There are a lot of vanished churches in Hyde Park, one, Episcopal iirc at 56th and Blackstone, the vicarage is still there and the lot is their yard and another at 56th and Dorchester, same corner, which is now a high-rise. St. Stephens in the 5600 block of Blackstone is close to gone.
I used to work in the convent/nuns residence for an RC girls high school (long gone) at Taylor and Damen.
Also numerous lost Synagogues in the inner city as well, Sinai in Hyde Park for instance, is now townhouses.
Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
Elaine W
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Date: March 05, 2015 06:29PM
Davey--Sinai congregation sold the land to a real estate developer and moved north, near Newberry Library and "Bughouse Square."
Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
Longford
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Date: March 05, 2015 08:46PM
There was a St. Sebastian RC Church at the NW corner of N. Halsted and W. Wellington. The church and school were demolished in the 1970s and the property sold to Illinois Masonic Hospital which constructed a couple of buildings on the site.
Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: March 10, 2015 05:31PM
I'm well aware of that.
Elaine W Wrote:
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> Davey--Sinai congregation sold the land to a real
> estate developer and moved north, near Newberry
> Library and "Bughouse Square."
Elaine W Wrote:
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> Davey--Sinai congregation sold the land to a real
> estate developer and moved north, near Newberry
> Library and "Bughouse Square."
Re: Lost Chicago Churches
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: March 14, 2015 04:57PM
@NipTu, try checking Classmates.com. I sure the year books have pictures of what you are looking for.
http://www.classmates.com/places/school/St-Carthage-School/17884611
http://www.classmates.com/places/school/St-Carthage-School/17884611
