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Act from Massachusetts Legislature to Incorporate Emmanuel College, January 10, 1921

View of the Chapel soon after College opened. The Emmanuel College Chapel windows were designed by
Alexander S. Locke (1860-1921). The Locke Decorative Company also designed windows for St. Catherine of Genoa Church in Somerville, St. John’s…

Passport photograph Sister Helen Madeleine Ingraham (1887-1989). She was Emmanuel College’s first Dean of Students. She remained Dean from 1919 until her resignation in 1950. During her term, she created its curriculum and guided the college through…

December 19, 1919 letter from Cardinal O’Connell to Sr. Bernardine Marie Daly (1860-1942) congratulating her and all the Sisters of Notre Dame for the opening of Emmanuel College.

View of Emmanuel College from across the Fens

Map of the Fenway in 1917 after the completion of Notre Dame Academy in 1916. The NDA building would share its space with Emmanuel College from 1919 until 1931, when the Academy would move to its new home on Granby Street in Boston.

Sr. Adela du Sacre Coeur, the first Emmanuel College President.

She was born Adele Marie Josephine Albertine Gils in 1860 in Vaux et Borset, Belgium. She entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1880 and came to the United States in 1884, where she…

Letter from lawyer, Henry Cunningham, to Sr. Julia of the Passion, Superior of the Notre Dame Academy on Berkeley Street. It describes the land for sale on the Fenway, its restrictions and need for deposit to secure the sale. This land eventually…

The letter states Congregation's Superior, Sister Julia of the Passion, gives permission for the sisters at the Notre Dame Academy on Berkeley Street to begin looking for a new site for the Academy. This ultimately led to the foundation of Emmanuel…

View of the Academy before its move to the Fenway, when it eventually became Emmanuel College.