Loyola School (New York City)
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Loyola School was founded in 1900 in the Upper East Side
of New York City
by the Society of Jesus
. Originally a Catholic
boys school, Loyola has been coeducational since 1973 and today Loyola is the only Jesuit, independent
, and co-ed
college preparatory secondary school in the Tri-State Region. With a student enrollment of two hundred, the average class size of fifteen students promotes personal attention and individual participation. Loyola students receive an education whose focus is to foster lifelong learning and to produce graduates who are academically excellent, open to growth, religious, loving, and committed to doing justice in service to others. Recent graduates attend top-tier colleges and universities, including the Ivy League
, "Little Ivies
", and Jesuit
colleges and universities. The school is located two city blocks east of Central Park
and Museum Mile
on 83rd Street and Park Avenue
in Manhattan
. St. Ignatius Church is in the same complex and is used for various school functions. The church is listed as a NYC landmark
and the complex is listed
as a National Historic Place
. St. Ignatius Loyola School is an elementary school that also shares the complex but there is no official link between the schools.
neighborhood) adjacent to his church. The purchase price was $7,500.00. Upon the church's rebuilding and re-dedication, the Society of Jesus
strengthened their ties to this parish by founding the school, which was encouraged by the Dominicans at St. Vincent Ferrer (New York City) and the Paulist Fathers
at St. Paul the Apostle (New York City). Ground was broken for the new school in February 1899. The school opened to students in October 1900 with classes held in the nearby priests' residence. After various building material strikes delayed completion, the six-story Renaissance Revival style steel-framed school opened on December 17, 1900 and was formally dedicated by Michael A. Corrigan, Archbishop of New York, on February 11, 1901.
The New York Herald reviewed the new "Early Renaissance Type" building, reporting that "the building cost around $125,000, and the property, taken with the lot on which it is located, represents an expenditure of more than $200,000. The exterior of the building is constructed entirely of Ohio sandstone, with cornices, and a flambeau
with coat of arms just over the entrance.... It is of the most advanced fireproof construction.... Altogether the building represents the highest degree of architectural excellence as applied to schools."
The Latin inscription on the first floor chapel bow's blind window panel (with segmental pediment) of the Park Avenue facade reads "SANCT IGNATIO / DE LOYOLA / PATRI LEGIFERO / SOCIETATIS JESV / QVI VBICVMQVE / GENTIVM / IN SPEM RELLIGIONIS / ET CIVITATIS / ADOLESCENTES MORBIBUS / ET BONIS ARTIBVS / ET BONIS ARTIBVS / IMBVIT / AEDES HAE / DEDICANTVR" which translates: "To Saint Ignatius Loyola / Founder of the Society of Jesus / who for the good of Church and State / everywhere / has stored the minds of youth / with virtue and learning / these buildings are dedicated." The chapel was decorated by Brother Francis C. Schroen
, S.J., (1857–1924), who had previous been a designer at the Jesuit Georgetown University
. The stained glass was by Louis C. Tiffany and above Schroen's white marble altar was a canopied statue of Our Lady of Lourdes
by the New York-sculptor Joseph Sibbel
. "In 1973, Loyola became coeducational, and today Loyola is the only Jesuit, independent, and coed college preparatory secondary school in the Tri-State region."
The six-story gymnasium and rectory on 43-63 E 83rd Street was built 1953 to designs by architects Eggers & Higgins
of 100 E 42nd Street, New York City, at a reported cost of $800,000. The five-story extension (1954) at 39-41 E 83rd Street was completed by the same architects at a reported cost of $290,000.
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The Upper East Side lies within an area bounded by 59th Street to 96th Street, and the East River to Fifth Avenue-Central Park...
of New York City
New York City
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by the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
. Originally a Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
boys school, Loyola has been coeducational since 1973 and today Loyola is the only Jesuit, independent
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
, and co-ed
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
college preparatory secondary school in the Tri-State Region. With a student enrollment of two hundred, the average class size of fifteen students promotes personal attention and individual participation. Loyola students receive an education whose focus is to foster lifelong learning and to produce graduates who are academically excellent, open to growth, religious, loving, and committed to doing justice in service to others. Recent graduates attend top-tier colleges and universities, including the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
, "Little Ivies
Little Ivies
Little Ivies is a colloquialism referring to a group of small, selective American liberal arts colleges; however, it does not denote any official organization....
", and Jesuit
Jesuit Ivy
"Jesuit Ivy" is the title of a commencement speech delivered at and, subsequently, a nickname given to Boston College, a Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. The term was coined in a 1956 commencement address by then-Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy...
colleges and universities. The school is located two city blocks east of Central Park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
and Museum Mile
Museum Mile, New York City
Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the city of New York, in the United States, running from 82nd to 104th streets on the Upper East Side in a neighborhood known as Carnegie Hill. The "mile", which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world, is...
on 83rd Street and Park Avenue
Park Avenue (Manhattan)
Park Avenue is a wide boulevard that carries north and southbound traffic in New York City borough of Manhattan. Through most of its length, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east....
in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
. St. Ignatius Church is in the same complex and is used for various school functions. The church is listed as a NYC landmark
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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and the complex is listed
National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan above 59th to 110th Streets
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th StreetsThis is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places between 59th and 110th Streets in Manhattan...
as a National Historic Place
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
. St. Ignatius Loyola School is an elementary school that also shares the complex but there is no official link between the schools.
History
The Rev. Robert Fulton, S.J. (1826–1895), eleventh pastor (from 1880) of St. Lawrence O'Toole (the original parish name of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)), purchased the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street (in the YorkvilleYorkville, Manhattan
Yorkville is a neighborhood in the greater Upper East Side, in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. Yorkville's boundaries include: the East River on the east, 96th Street on the north, Third Avenue on the west and 72nd Street to the south. However, its southern boundary is a subject of...
neighborhood) adjacent to his church. The purchase price was $7,500.00. Upon the church's rebuilding and re-dedication, the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
strengthened their ties to this parish by founding the school, which was encouraged by the Dominicans at St. Vincent Ferrer (New York City) and the Paulist Fathers
Paulist Fathers
The Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle, better known as the Paulist Fathers, is a Roman Catholic religious society for men founded in New York City in 1858 by Servant of God Fr. Isaac Thomas Hecker in collaboration with Fr. George Deshon, Fr. Augustine Hewit, and Fr. Francis A. Baker....
at St. Paul the Apostle (New York City). Ground was broken for the new school in February 1899. The school opened to students in October 1900 with classes held in the nearby priests' residence. After various building material strikes delayed completion, the six-story Renaissance Revival style steel-framed school opened on December 17, 1900 and was formally dedicated by Michael A. Corrigan, Archbishop of New York, on February 11, 1901.
The New York Herald reviewed the new "Early Renaissance Type" building, reporting that "the building cost around $125,000, and the property, taken with the lot on which it is located, represents an expenditure of more than $200,000. The exterior of the building is constructed entirely of Ohio sandstone, with cornices, and a flambeau
Flambeau
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with coat of arms just over the entrance.... It is of the most advanced fireproof construction.... Altogether the building represents the highest degree of architectural excellence as applied to schools."
The Latin inscription on the first floor chapel bow's blind window panel (with segmental pediment) of the Park Avenue facade reads "SANCT IGNATIO / DE LOYOLA / PATRI LEGIFERO / SOCIETATIS JESV / QVI VBICVMQVE / GENTIVM / IN SPEM RELLIGIONIS / ET CIVITATIS / ADOLESCENTES MORBIBUS / ET BONIS ARTIBVS / ET BONIS ARTIBVS / IMBVIT / AEDES HAE / DEDICANTVR" which translates: "To Saint Ignatius Loyola / Founder of the Society of Jesus / who for the good of Church and State / everywhere / has stored the minds of youth / with virtue and learning / these buildings are dedicated." The chapel was decorated by Brother Francis C. Schroen
Francis C. Schroen
Francis C. Schroen, SJ, was a Jesuit brother and interior designer principally of Roman Catholic institutional chapels built by the Society of Jesus....
, S.J., (1857–1924), who had previous been a designer at the Jesuit Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
. The stained glass was by Louis C. Tiffany and above Schroen's white marble altar was a canopied statue of Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition said to have appeared before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France...
by the New York-sculptor Joseph Sibbel
Joseph Sibbel
Joseph Sibbel was a German-born sculptor.As a boy he evinced the inclination for cutting ornaments and figures from wood, which attracted the attention of his teacher, who urged the parents of the boy to send him to Munster, Westphalia. At the establishment of the wood carver, Friedrich A...
. "In 1973, Loyola became coeducational, and today Loyola is the only Jesuit, independent, and coed college preparatory secondary school in the Tri-State region."
The six-story gymnasium and rectory on 43-63 E 83rd Street was built 1953 to designs by architects Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers and Daniel Paul Higgins . The architects were responsible for the construction phase of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial beginning in 1939, two years after the death of its original architect, John Russell Pope,...
of 100 E 42nd Street, New York City, at a reported cost of $800,000. The five-story extension (1954) at 39-41 E 83rd Street was completed by the same architects at a reported cost of $290,000.
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Headmasters (previously Vice-Principals) of Loyola School
- William J. Ennis, S.J., (1900–1903)
- James P. Fagan, S.J., (1903–1906)
- Patrick F. O'Gorman, S.J., (1906–1920)
- J.H. Farley, S.J., (1920–1932)
- Frances E. Garner S.J., (1932–1939)
- Walter A. Reilly, S.J., (1939–1946)
- C. Justin Hanley, S.J., (1946–1949)
- Peter J. Daly, S.J., (1949–1960)
- Robert J. Haskins, S.J., (1960–1968)
- Michael J. Guerra (1968–1982)
- James F. Fox, S.J., (1982–1995)
- Joseph J. Papaj, S.J., (1995–2001)
- Franklin N. Caesar (2001–2003)
- James F. X. Lyness, Jr. (2003–present)
Presidents of Loyola School
- Neil Norbert McKinnon, S.J., (1900–1907)
- William O'Brien Pardow, S.J., (1907–1909)
- David W. Hearn, S.J., (1909–1915)
- Cowles Havens Richards, S.J., (1915–1919)
- James J. Kilrowy, S.J., (1919–1924)
- Patrick F. O'Gorman, S.J., (1924–1930)
- Edward J. Sweeney, S.J., (1930–1933)
- William J. Devlin, S.J., (1933–1935)
- W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., (1935–1940)
- Francis A. McQuade, S.J., (1940–1945)
- John Edwards Gratton, S.J., (1945–1949)
- C. Justin Hanley, S.J., (1949–1952)
- Robert I. Gannon, S.J., (1952–1958)
- John J. McGinty, S.J., (1958–1960)
- William T. Wood, S.J., (1960–1966)
- Charles T. Taylor, S.J., (1966–1970)
- Robert Haskins, S.J., (1970–1975)
- John Kelly, S.J., (1975–1981)
- James F. Fox, S.J., (1981–1995)
- Joseph J. Papaj, S.J., (1995–2002)
- Stephen Katsouros, S.J. (2002–2011)
- Tony Oroszlany (2011-present)