13 Comments Posted by Katherine

I agree with Karch - this is just pathetic that this was allowed to get like this. This was such a beautiful place.
I wonder if this part was near the covered portico/ carport. You could drive up and get out without getting rained on, but since it stuck out from the house it might have been a spot where the rain could be trapped and damage the roof.

There were drawers like this in the office too and they were filled with those little metal printing press letters that my mom would use to stamp the gold letters in mass cards when people bought them personalized usually for a death, it was the old fashioned press where each letter was a little metal piece and they would get lined up in the printing machine and then pressed with gold leaf for a card.

My mom's office was in this area across the hall from this there were double doors there too.
On holidays like Christmas and Easter these would all be opened up and we had a big party with lots of Italian Christmas cookies that the nuns and people who celebrated here would make. So delicious! And of course lots of singing Christmas carols.
I was in the place several times a week during the late 70's as a kid.

so sad.

The whole ceiling was covered with paintings like a mini cistine chapel and it just glowed, it was really really beautiful.

This chapel was so beautiful, I used to go to mass here on Christmas eve and have cookies in the mansion. It was one of the most beautiful artworks you can think of, like a mini cistine chapel.
I was born in 1967 and lived in a house bordering the property on Coleman road and my mom worked here. My dad died when I was 8 and so this was where I went after being in St. John's for school I would come here afterschool as my mom worked there in the office in the mansion.
I will never forget this place some of my best memories of childhood are here. I was here like all the time from when I was 8 - 12 years and then I graduated Burke in 1985 so I didn't know this happened.
So sad.
Katherine Cadgene

I used to play here and hang out after school in the late 70's my mom worked here in the office.
I used to ride the ponies at the camp too.
Father Jerry and Father Nisanski were some of the priests I remember.

I used to be there all the time cause my mom worked in the office, a beautiful place to grow up, I was lucky.

I went to Catholic school for 12 years too, but I used to visit this with old Father Nisanski, he was a wonderful priest.
When this was used there was a statue of the virgin here.

I didn't know the mansion was torn down. I always celebrated Christmas there and ate cookies and sang beautiful carols, and went there every day after school with my mom in the late 70's cause my mom worked there.
Just makes me sick that people destroyed it and all that is left is memories for people like me.
When I graduated high school at Burke it was still ok that was in 1985.

I grew up here literally. I lived in a house that bordered this property until I was 12 and lived in Goshen area til after college. My mother worked at the seminary so I was there all the time.
This photo of the fall leaves is the only thing that seems to have survived like a remember it.

this is very interesting... congratulations and thanks!

The building isn't demolished. I went there last night actually. Sections of it have been burnt down but almost all of it is still standing. It is also very very boarded up so if by chance you ever decide to return bring a hammer or a crowbar to get in.