1,168 Comments for Salesian School

Sad when these places are left to deteriorate.

Totally agree with Nancy!

I hate when they let gorgeous old buildings like this just deteriorate to the point to where they cannot be saved. I am a paranormal investigator and would have loved to investigate a location like this! SAD!

I like this! Never seen a rainbow radiator. Somebody would probably pay a pretty penny for this (no, I dont condone people going in places like this and ripping this stuff out but they should save this one!)

I would love to investigate here!

Hugh, Goshen is still a beautiful place. Probably not the same as it once was but they have a wonderful farmer's market every Friday, lots of fantastic restaurants, etc. If not for that eyesore of a Gov't bldg it would be nothing but lovely. The track still holds races on the 4th of July weekend too :-) Glad this brought back memories for so many. It was truly a pleasure to read your comments while looking at the photographs. I'm now in love with this site. Went walking the Salesian grounds the other day with my son and it was simply peaceful!

This shot really gives a clear idea of how beautiful this place must have once been. Another of my favorites; although, I'm finding myself saying that over and over.

Now that dixinites mentions it I can absolutely see the paint growing as opposed to peeling. What an amazing shot!

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.