{"id":878,"date":"2012-11-27T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2012-11-27T06:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:32:01","slug":"the-sisters-of-the-divine-savior-convent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"The Sisters of the Divine Savior convent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Preservation Alliance, Inc.\u00a0 posted a link to an article (unavailable unless you subscribe to the news outlet) about this old convent on 35th &amp; Center St.<\/p>\n<p>their comment:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with this picture and why can&#8217;t the City of Milwaukee see it?<br \/>\nHas the city advertised this building to developers?<br \/>\nWhere is the leadership from elected officials?<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee scours coffers for costly demo job | The Daily Reporter<\/p>\n<div>It would cost Milwaukee an entire year&#8217;s demolition budget to tear down the former St. Mary&#8217;s convent on West Center Street, but vandalism and the fear of squatters setting fires this winter have pushed city officials to scour their coffers and schedule demolition for December.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taken from The Sisters of the Divine Savior\u00a0 website:\u00a0 http:\/\/my.dsha.info\/page.aspx?pid=416<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sisters of the Divine Savior opened their convent school at 35th and Center Streets to lay students in 1948. Three years later Divine Savior High School moved to a new building on 100th Street near Capitol Drive. Holy Angels Academy was founded by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 12th and Cedar Streets in 1892. In a spirit of cooperation and good will, the two schools affiliated in 1970 and continued the mission of both by joining together their names, traditions, students and alumnae.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So we can trace the 35th &amp; Center location to 1948\u00a0 (which they moved out of in 1951).\u00a0\u00a0 So has this complex sat vacant for\u00a0 61 years?\u00a0\u00a0 Does anyone know any stories, or have older pic of the complex?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the Google Streetview, at least the exterior looks like it&#8217;s in decent enough shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Preservation Alliance, Inc.\u00a0 posted a link to an article (unavailable unless you subscribe to the news outlet) about this old convent on 35th &amp; Center St. their comment: &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with this picture and why can&#8217;t the City of Milwaukee see it? Has the city advertised this building to developers? Where is the leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}