140 Comments for St. Alphonsus Hall

Yes, the doorway is on the mezzanine (next to the stage), looking out towards the back.

Not sure if it was salvaged, but it's most definitely not still on the wall back there...
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Where is that looking into? Is this the back of the auditorium?

The copy on the front almost looks like it was typewritten and the dark blue design mimeographed or silk-screened. Perhaps that was used for every program and the particulars for this week were typed in? This might put this sometime before computers and "desktop publishing" were common. Maybe 70s-80s? Just a guess.

How much Eldo?

look at all the paper plates on the floor, did someone have a pizza party?

There she is. Wonderful I want one in my house for every room :)

Loved every photo and can't wait to see the convent! In Schenectady NY there's a church called St. So-and-So's (I don't want to give away the location) that is now vacant. Was the old school Roman Catholic style church and absolutely beautiful. So sad to see it like this, I remember it all decked out for Christmas several years back. Anyway, the building next to it, the Rectory they called it, is for sale. I came across it on one of the real estate web sites. It's really cheap, this building has like three floors, eight bedrooms, four baths, library, etc. etc. I am looking for a house and considered this but it's way too big for just one person but it would make a killer residence!

As Rome slowly declined people scavenged the buildings for materiel to make new smaller ones. The Coliseum was filled with homes at one point.
I think illiteracy probably also made graffiti rather pointless as well. It just occurred to me to wonder if anyone had ever mistaken a pictorial graffiti for "art" .

I love these old seats.

I'm loving that dome ceiling.

I wonder if someone took this when the building was stripped of all it's adornments. . . I hope if it was, it found a good home and didn't end up in the dumpster. Or perhaps it was hidden enough and is still there?

Great photos as always. From looking through this gallery you can almost hear the echoes of past shows and audiences.

Yup; it's impossible to tell at this angle, but there was a rope or chain still dangling from the hole in the center.

I remember leafing through, but I don't believe there was a date in there. I suppose a general decade could be guessed at by the artwork and layout on the cover, but that's a bit out of my league.