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1713 1715
The address on Bush Street for the first Sacred Heart Academy in San Francisco.
1914-15
1906
The amount the Society spent to purchase the Jackson Street house in June 1909.
$130,000
$3.4
The purchase price for the Vallejo Apartments (2257 Vallejo) bought in 1960.
Million
The cost to build the Herbert Center. The sports complex, located behind the Flood Mansion, was funded through the school’s second capital campaign, which launched publicly in 1991.
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The year an epic earthquake hit San Francisco. The Franklin Street House was heavily damaged (thankfully, no students or faculty were hurt), so the Society leased the Boyd House on 2020 Washington from Jean McGregor Boyd. This earthquake is also responsible for the eventual existence of the Flood Mansion.
$10
Price in gold coin that the Archbishop charged the Society for the Franklin Street House (at Ellis) in April 1888.
The year James Leary Flood built the mansion for his wife, Maud Lee Flood. After the devastating 1906 earthquake, Maud was stricken and wanted to leave San Francisco. Her husband is said to have reassured her: “I will build you a house of marble on a hill of granite” to keep the family safe.
$145,000
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55
There are rooms in the now-famed Spreckels Mansion at 2080 Washington, which is home to author Danielle Steel. The mansion is located on the former site of the Washington Street campus. Sugar heir Adolph Spreckels bought the property and built the mansion in 1909 as a gift for his wife, Alma deBretteville Spreckels.
Three
buildings comprise Stuart Hall High School (1715 Octavia): A historic building (The Morning Star School), a modern structure of glass and steel, and an attached 1850s Victorian (the Mary Magnano Smith Building).
The first capital campaign raised money to purchase Herbst House (2201 Broadway) in
1985 for
$1,075,000.
The house was built in 1914 and is now home to Convent Middle Form students.
$22 million
The amount raised during the Framework for the Future campaign, which wrapped in June 2012. The campaign increased the endowment, provided supplemental funds and improved facilities, like the major overhauls of Stuart Hall for Boys and the Broadway kitchen and cafeteria.
100
Percentage of proceeds from Seconds To Go (2252 Fillmore Street), the school’s secondhand store, that benefit the Financial Aid program. The store has donated more than $1,000,000 to financial assistance since opening in 1974.
$150,000
The amount the Society paid for the Joseph Donohoe Grant House in 1950. In 1951, grades 1-8 (mostly girls) moved into the building. At that time, there were 231 students in the elementary school (133 in the high school), plus 29 RSCJs in the community, 17 RSCJs in the school and five aspirants.
$165,000
The price paid by the Society in 1956 to purchase the Andrew B. Hammond House. The property was used to start a K-8 boys program, Stuart Hall for Boys, which opened in September 1956. The building was constructed in 1905 for Hammond, a lumber and railroad magnate.