Took a trip today. No real destination. Drove through part of Union looking for some store, and came across an older Catholic Church, St. Michael's. Church and school. So many nice brick buildings around here. Funny, we were talking about going towards Connecticut (Northeast), but ended up going Southwest down Hwy 22. Passed into the town of Watchung. We stopped at a shopping center to go into Michael's craft store, and it is surrounded by short forested hills. The trees all around us were in the beginning stages of changing colors. They were beautiful and I spent time taking pictures of them. As we cruised on down 22, we got a glimpse of an old building on a hill in the middle of a forest. Literally just like a clock tower barely rose above the trees. We almost missed it. We turned around and went back and took a road up to see. We found Mount St. Mary's, a private four-year high school for girls. Fantastic grounds and stately early 20th century buildings. I walked around and took photos. At one point we saw deer on a lawn. White tailed New England deer. My eye was struck by a short outside hallway with thin window openings. Thought I'd get some good pictures in there. I started taking pictures, (it was getting later, so it was darkish inside the hallway, and turned and there on a structure, was a great old bell. The school had had a fire in 1911 and the main building burned down. When they rebuilt it the next year, it included a tower with the 1000 pound bell in it. I had to rap it with my knuckles to hear the tone. What great workmanship! The school has a football and track field, and a garden. Just a chance glimpse and we were able to see something beautiful and historically significant that we would normally have never seen. Pictures will be posted on Facebook.
http://www.mountsaintmary.org/
Perusing the history of the school, you find a businessman donated the land to the Sisters of Mercy asking them to build a school to educate women. A great example of American history with a private businessman helping to educate women in a period of time when it was practically unheard of.
Took a trip today. No real destination. Drove through part of Union looking for some store, and came across an older Catholic Church, St. Michael's. Church and school. So many nice brick buildings around here. Funny, we were talking about going towards Connecticut (Northeast), but ended up going Southwest down Hwy 22. Passed into the town of Watchung. We stopped at a shopping center to go into Michael's craft store, and it is surrounded by short forested hills. The trees all around us were in the beginning stages of changing colors. They were beautiful and I spent time taking pictures of them. As we cruised on down 22, we got a glimpse of an old building on a hill in the middle of a forest. Literally just like a clock tower barely rose above the trees. We almost missed it. We turned around and went back and took a road up to see. We found Mount St. Mary's, a private four-year high school for girls. Fantastic grounds and stately early 20th century buildings. I walked around and took photos. At one point we saw deer on a lawn. White tailed New England deer. My eye was struck by a short outside hallway with thin window openings. Thought I'd get some good pictures in there. I started taking pictures, (it was getting later, so it was darkish inside the hallway, and turned and there on a structure, was a great old bell. The school had had a fire in 1911 and the main building burned down. When they rebuilt it the next year, it included a tower with the 1000 pound bell in it. I had to rap it with my knuckles to hear the tone. What great workmanship! The school has a football and track field, and a garden. Just a chance glimpse and we were able to see something beautiful and historically significant that we would normally have never seen. Pictures will be posted on Facebook.
http://www.mountsaintmary.org/
Perusing the history of the school, you find a businessman donated the land to the Sisters of Mercy asking them to build a school to educate women. A great example of American history with a private businessman helping to educate women in a period of time when it was practically unheard of.
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