Marist Place

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Marist Place
Marist Place, Site of the Marist School for Boys, 1919-1939.jpg
The former site of the Marist School is now occupied by this building, pictured in 2013
Marist Place
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Location Savannah, Georgia, United States
Address123 East Charlton Street, Lafayette Square
Coordinates 32°04′21″N81°05′32″W / 32.07252°N 81.09210°W / 32.07252; -81.09210

Marist Place is the former location of a school building at today's 123 East Charlton Street in Savannah, Georgia, United States, in the southwest tything of Lafayette Square. It was located in what became Savannah's Historic District.

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The building was home to the Marist School for Boys between 1919 and 1939. [1]

A plaque on the building, erected June 9, 1989, by Colonel Joseph B. Bergen, Class of 1939, [1] reads:

The site of Marist School for Boys, 1919–1939, Grammar School Operated by Marist Brothers of the Schools: Last graduating class, June 9, 1939, Rev. Brother Eugene Bergeron, F.M.S., teacher; Reverend Brother Nicholas Whiteside, F.M.S., principal; Rev. Monsignor T. James McNamara, pastor, and Most Reverend Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D., J.U.D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "When the Marists left Savannah" - Southern Cross, Diocese of Savannah