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Property Features
Related buildings: attached to OU 46/2, 3; OU 46/5; attached garage.
Previously surveyed in 1991.
Established as the St. Therese of the Child Jesus parish in 1927, the parish located on land purchased on Morrison Street, Wisconsin Avenue, North Durkee Street, and Summer Street. Once the parish had been established, they quickly set about building the complex that occupies the site today. The first building was erected in 1927 with the first floor of the building serving as the church. The following year, in 1928, the St. Therese School opened. The school had 329 students in eight grades and employed six teachers from the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
It was a full decade later that a new church was begun and work on the rectory commenced. The parish continued to thrive in the following decades, and was divided two times, creating both the St. Pius X Parish and the S. Thomas More Parish. Eventually, the parish population began to dwindle, and the school was closed in the mid 1980s.
National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings
HI39469
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