Ste. Chretienne Academy

• An all-girls catholic school, now closed, situated in South Salem.

• The first building was built in 1936 and two more stories were added in 1948.

• In 1914, the order bought Loring Villa in south Salem and turned it into St. Chretienne Academy. The academy ran as a boarding school until 1971.

• The complex was sold to Salem State College in 1972 and it now serves as its South Campus.

• St. Chretienne Academy had 12 classrooms, laboratories, sewing room, typewriting rooms, library, chapel, cafeteria, gymnasium-auditorium.

• Ste. Chretienne's Academy had close ties to St. Anne's Grammar and High School. The Sisters of St. Chretienne taught at St. Anne's School until 1976.

• When the school closed, Sister Pauline Fortin, a St. Chretienne nun went on to earn an accounting degree from Salem State College.

See Also

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Schools, Catholic

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Loring Farm (George Bailey Loring)

• Ste. Chretienne Academy Salem State archives (photos)

• "St. Chretienne's reunion" Salem Evening News, May 7, 1996, p. C3

• Sisters of St. Chretienne: a century of good work." Salem News, Oct. 24, 2003, p. A2

• Salem in Vintage Postcards ed. Mathias, Michaud, Turino, p. 45 (photographs of Ste. Chretienne)