This Worcester school served several generations of Roman Catholic schoolchildren before it met the wrecking ball.
The school, built in the early 1920s, was a reflection of a need among the city's growing Catholic population.
Starting nearly 70 years earlier, immigration into the city included many Catholic ethnic groups, from the Irish who came to work on the Blackstone Canal, to the Italian, Polish and Canadian immigrants who followed, among others.
When the Catholic Church associated with this school celebrated its 100th anniversary, diocese leaders pointed out that the churches and schools were built by donations from poor immigrants who could ill-afford their donation, but who were committed to their faith — and to bringing their children up as good Catholics.
From the 1830s, when St. John's Church was founded as the Worcester's first Catholic Church, to the middle of the 20th century, the city's immigrant population increased and prospered. Neighborhoods dubbed by the city at large as the bastions of the ethnicity of their residents spread, and more and more churches in far-flung neighborhoods were required to serve the city's population.
But membership in churches and schools that educate their young are subject to fluctuations in population and popularity. Parochial education has gone out of favor. By the time this school closed in 1974, it was educating only 60 students.
Hint: The church associated with this school celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.
— Melissa McKeonSee tomorrow's Telegram & Gazette, and telegram.com, for the answer.