Photos: Old Holy Trinity School and Building the New One

[BLeafe]

Mom strikes again!

I just found the negatives for these. She took pictures in 1956 and 1957 of the old and new Holy Trinity School.

The first image is the old building where the parking lot is now. The second is the foundation for the new HTS. You can see the backs of the apartment buildings at 46 and 50 Anderson St. These were taken on August 9, 1956:




The next two images show the convent, which looks almost completed, and the school, which has a way to go. These were taken on February 25, 1957:




The "new" school, according to her Daily Events book, opened a half-century ago on Monday, September 8, 1958 ("half-day!", she notes).



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[Warren from Summit Ave]

I REALLY enjoyed these photos but there is an error in one of the captions. It reads: The "new" school, according to her Daily Events book, opened a half-century ago on Monday, September 8, 1958 ("half-day!", she notes)

I attended the news school the first year it was open and it was the 1957-58 school year (not 58-59). I know this for a fact because my family moved from Hackensack to Upper Saddle River on June 28, 1958 and I started school in Upper Saddle River in September 1958.

[BLeafe]

Hello, Warren, and welcome to the site.

You're both right. Mom DID write that in her book, but I was in the new school for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades and graduated in 1961, so I would have had to have started 5th grade in 1957.

Mom was obviously referring to the school year and not the initial opening of the school in her 1958 entry.

Good catch.



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[just watching]

Now that the school is closed as a Catholic school, has anything come of the building.  Is it vacant.  Will it be used for something else.