Marycrest Girls High School

Marycrest Girls High School was an all female high school located at 5320 Federal Boulevard in Denver, Colorado, United States.[1] The school was a private Roman Catholic institution.[2]

Marycrest High School
Location
Denver, Colorado

United States
Information
Typeprivate, all female
Established1958
Closed1988
Grades9-12
Enrollment200 (peak in the 1970s)
AffiliationRoman Catholic Church

History

The Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity purchased property near 52nd Avenue and Federal Boulevard in northwest Denver to house a convent and motherhouse for their order's new midwestern province in 1938. They christened the property Marycrest. The sisters converted their novitiate into Marycrest High School in 1958. The school's enrollment peaked around 200 in the 1970s, when it was known as a female counterpart to nearby Regis Jesuit High School. The school closed in 1988.[3]

Following the school's closure, its campus was leased to Tennyson Center for Children with an option for that organization to purchase the property.[4] In 1996, the building was demolished and replaced with assisted living residences.[5]

Notable alumnae

References
  1. Marycrest Girls High School. All Area Codes. Retrieved on February 29, 2008.
  2. Carlson, Margaret (1993-09-27). "The Return Of The Fugitive". Time. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
  3. Noel, Thomas J. (1989). "Vehr: The Flowering of Catholicism (1931-1967)". Colorado Catholicism and the Archdiocese of Denver, 1857-1989. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-179-7. OCLC 20454010. Archived from the original on 2008-08-21. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
  4. Tennyson Center for Children: History Archived 2007-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. King, Roxanne (2000-05-03). "A jewel of serenity in the midst of the city". Denver Catholic Register. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-04. Two assisted living complexes . . . are the newest of the sisters' ministries. Located on the site once occupied by Marycrest High School, an all-girls school the sisters operated from 1958-1988, the school was torn down in 1996 to make room for the residences.
  6. Moreno, Ivan (2007-06-01). "Coogan to lead Littleton police". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-04.


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