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Loretto Academy

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1923–1936, Trost and Trost. 1300 Hardaway St.

The Loretto Academy, a private Roman Catholic girl’s school, acquired this land in 1922 and opened the academy building in September 1923. The chapel, completed in 1931, was designed by Gustavus Trost. The monumental, Italianate chapel is pivoted at an angle between symmetrically arrayed three-story academic buildings and keyed architecturally to the pilgrimage site at Loreto, Italy, from which the school takes its name. Although appearing to be a campanile, the tower functions as a water tower.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Loretto Academy", SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP48.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 497-497.

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