Notre Dame Academy and Convent

Notre Dame Academy and Convent
Notre Dame Academy and Convent
Notre Dame Academy and Convent is located in Nebraska
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Coordinates: 41°20′3.85″N 95°58′5.95″W / 41.3344028°N 95.9683194°W / 41.3344028; -95.9683194Coordinates: 41°20′3.85″N 95°58′5.95″W / 41.3344028°N 95.9683194°W / 41.3344028; -95.9683194
Built: 1926
Architect: Lahr, Matthew; Stangel, Carl
Architectural style: Italian Renaissance Revival
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 98000192[1]
Added to NRHP: March 5, 1998
Notre Dame Academy
Location
3501 State Street
Omaha, Nebraska

United States
Information
Type Roman Catholic school
Established 1925
Closed 1974
School district Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha
Number of students 400 (peak; 1964)
Affiliation Roman Catholic church

The Notre Dame Academy and Convent is located at 3501 State Street in the Florence neighborhood on the north end of Omaha, Nebraska. It is significant for its ethnic association with the Czech population in Nebraska as the only school and convent of the Czechoslovakian School Sisters de Notre Dame (this is not the same order as the School Sisters of Notre Dame) in the United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[2] The groups were home to a high school for girls from 1925 through 1974.

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History

The 1880s and 90s saw nearly 100,000 Czechs leave the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia and emigrate to the United States. Once in the United States the immigrants tended to establish Czech-only neighborhoods and towns that were almost self-sufficient, with Czech-language shops, banks, churches and schools.[3] The Czechoslovakian School Sisters of Notre Dame came to the United States to sustain Czech immigrants by teaching the Czech language and culture.

The order purchased Seven Oaks Farm, Father Edward J. Flanagan's original site for Boys Town. Afterwards, Sisters were regular staff at Boys Town.

Design

Influenced by the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha architects Matthew Lahr and Carl Stangel designed the E-shaped convent and school in 1924. It was constructed in phases over the next twenty-six years, all complying with the original design. It was designed in the late Italian Renaissance Revival style.[4]

School

Notre Dame Academy was sponsored and staffed by the Notre Dame Sisters from 1926 through its merger with Rummel High School to form the present Roncalli Catholic High School in 1974.[5]

Present

In 1997 the Sisters of Notre Dame changed the usage of the property to meet the needs of neighboring Florence. Re-opening as "Seven Oaks of Florence", today the facility provides low-income housing for seniors subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ (1998) National Register of Historic Places Listings in Nebraska. National Park Service. Retrieved 6/11/07.
  3. ^ (nd) Coming to America. History of Notre Dame Sisters of Omaha, Nebraska. Retrieved 6/11/07.
  4. ^ (2007) More National Historic Register Sites in Nebraska. Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 6/11/07.
  5. ^ (nd) Notre Dame Academy 1928-1974. Notre Dame Sisters of Omaha, Nebraska. Retrieved 6/11/07.
  6. ^ (nd) History. Seven Oaks of Florence. Retrieved 6/11/07.

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