Listen as current Nazareth Academy faculty, staff and students bring words from our Nazareth family to life!
“The building is Romanesque in style and is of Bedford cut stone and pressed brick. The interior is oak and mahogany finish with hardwood floors. The front, on Brainard Avenue, presented an elevation of one hundred ten feet in width and four full stories flanked by two wings extending seventy-five feet with a corresponding breadth of facade on the side fronting Ogden Avenue. The recessed center is marked by the main entrance portico, of beautiful design, crowned by a richly moulded arch bearing the title and insignia of the order, with gabled roof and pedestal surmounted by the statue of St. Joseph. From the inner hall and wide corridor extending north and south, we reach the south a spacious and finely lighted study hall with classrooms of generous size, and at the western end of the south wing a charmingly arranged conservatory, while on the north is the musical department consisting of seven rooms devoted to vocal and instrumental work. In the center of the main corridors is located the principal staircase, extending into the wide open courts between the wings, beautifully arranged and lighted, with a convenient veranda on its southern side. Conspicuously to the southeast, on the second floor, is the little Convent Chapel with its dainty altar of white and gold where both Sister and students spend many a happy hour in humble communion with Him who blesses their home. To the northeast is the Art Hall, and between are the community room and library, while in an isolated position in the north wing is the infirmary where light and cheerful surroundings insure recovery to the ailing ones. The building is surrounded by a spacious terraced lawn which is gracefully dotted with flowers and urns of twining vines.”
– Edna Schott, Class of 1907, for Chimes, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 1904.
Read aloud by Ava Bucur, Class of 2024
Featuring “Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy
