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St Louis School
1938, between Albert and Dean Streets Claremont. (Now the St Louis Retirement Estate)
Hinemoa
Town of Claremont:
James Morrison subdivided Swan Location 702 in 1880. Location 702 is a 28-hectare block extending from Parry Street to Stirling Road and from the railway to Stirling Highway. Morrison offered the land in 8000sqm lots for £2 each. The Superintendent of Public Works, George Temple Poole, and insurance company principal George H. Johnston each bought a block overlooking Stirling Highway. Johnston built ‘Hinemoa’ which he occupied until 1907 when it was sold to Alexander Clark Munro, State Manager of Millar’s Karri and Jarrah Co. When St Louis College occupied the site, the original house was used for the College’s administration.
Wikipedia:
St Louis School was a Catholic boys' school in Claremont, Western Australia, between 1938 and 1976. It was founded by the Jesuits – their only school in Western Australia. It opened on 23 May 1938 in Claremont, in the western suburbs of Perth, on the site of the former Hinemoa Homestead which had been sold to the Catholic Church in 1932. The homestead building was used for the Junior School, while new buildings were erected to house the Senior School, the Jesuit community, and the boarders.
The School was named after Aloysius Gonzaga, an early Jesuit saint, also known as Luís de Gonzaga. Its motto was "Altiora Peto" ("I seek higher things").
The Jesuits ran the School until 1971, when it was handed over to the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. Archbishop Lancelot Goody appointed a School Council chaired by Judge John Lavan to manage the School.
St Louis School amalgamated with the Loreto Convent girls' school to form John XXIII College, which opened in 1977.
The site of St Louis School is now occupied by the St Louis Retirement Estate, which has preserved the old Administration building.
St Louis School enrolled boys from ages seven to seventeen, both day pupils and boarders. Until the mid-1960s, the year grades were named after levels in the traditional Jesuit curriculum: Elements, Rudiments, Grammar (I and II), Syntax (I and II), Poetry and Rhetoric. Initially there were three houses named after the Jesuit saints: Gonzaga (blue), Kostka (green) and Xavier (red). A fourth house Loyola (white) was introduced in 1976 to ease the amalgamation with Loreto Convent which already had a fourth house.
References and Links
Town of Claremont Local Government Inventory.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 9 October, 2017 and hosted at freotopia.org/schools/stlouis.html (it was last updated on 7 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.