Loretto Academy
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The Loretto is a multipurpose venue in the Westport neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It was adapted from a former girls' academy known as Loretto Academy, dedicated in 1904 as a "boarding and day school for girls." It is named after the Sisters of Loretto, who established a presence in Kansas City in 1899. The land upon which Loretto Academy was built was purchased in September 1902 by Mother M. Praxedes Carty. The architect of Loretto Academy, Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, was soon after appointed the architect of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. The academy was the site of a fire in 1909 at a Halloween party; three students lost their lives when a paper dress became ignited by a lit jack-o'-lantern. Loretto Academy admitted its first black student in September 1947. In 1966 the site was sold to Calvary Bible College, who owned it for two decades; it then passed through the hands of three owners until a 1993 foreclosure. By then it had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places for a decade. As The Loretto, it currently hosts weddings in the historic cathedral chapel and wedding receptions in the ballroom. The building also offers apartments and offices. Its current owner, Loretto Redevelopment Corp., taking advantage of a tax abatement, has had plans for further redevelopment since 1996; as of 2011, those plans include "a hotel conversion, a small office space facing Mercier Street and two small rental buildings" on the 6-acre (2.4 ha) site. Loretto Academy (St. Louis, Missouri), also NRHP-listed
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When was Loretto Academy listed on the National Register?
Loretto Academy was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 27, 1983.
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Loretto Academy is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Loretto Academy is recorded as the industrial era.
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