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Windows to the Past H
ave you ever wondered what happened to the Old Ursuline in downtown Dallas? We’ve all seen pictures of those beautiful, gothic-style buildings. After serving the school community for more than 50 years, the structures had fallen into disrepair due to World War II rationing and had to be razed when the Sisters moved north in 1949 to their then-new campus on Walnut Hill Lane.
(Left) The St. Patrick stained-glass windows that once hung in the chapel of Old Ursuline (Above) Ursuline Academy of Dallas, downtown campus 1883 - 1949
But thankfully, not everything was lost. The Five Wise Virgins stained-glass window from the Old Ursuline Chapel was fabulously restored in 2010 and today hangs in the David M. Crowley Atrium of The French Family Center. And now, another piece of inspirational artistry from that historic structure has been gifted back to Ursuline.
A workman applied a crowbar to a high window casing of the old convent and remarked: “I sure hate to wreck this one. It’s like disposing of an old friend. My father was just a kid when this building was built in 1883.”
From a November 13, 1949, The Dallas Morning News article on the vacated buildings’ demolition
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