Chicken Coop and Sacred Heart Academy
Two photos appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue. Below are the captions for those photos.
Chicken Coop Served as Starter for School-Hospital.
This white structure, a chicken coop when the Sisters of Charity of Providence took it over in 1873, was used as a school-hospital at that time as the forerunner of today’s Sacred Heart Academy and St. Patrick Hospital.
The four-story structure at right was constructed in 1885. (Courtesy of Sacred Heart Academy)
This is how Sacred Heart Academy’s building looks now. This structure was erected in 1900. (Courtesy of Sacred Heart Academy)