Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute


Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Spalding Institute is now part of the Spalding Pastoral Center
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Location	401 NE Madison Ave. Peoria, Illinois
Coordinates	40°41′47.61″N 89°35′16.89″W / 40.6965583°N 89.5880250°W / 40.6965583; -89.5880250Coordinates: 40°41′47.61″N 89°35′16.89″W / 40.6965583°N 89.5880250°W / 40.6965583; -89.5880250
Part of	North Side Historic District (Peoria, Illinois) (#83003588 ^[1])
Added to NRHP	November 21, 1983

Academy of Our Lady and Spalding Institute were Catholic high schools across the street from each other in downtown Peoria, Illinois.

The Academy (AOL), a girls' school, traced its lineage back to 1863. The Spalding Institute (SI), the boys' school, was founded in 1899 by the Franciscan Brothers of Mountbellew, Ireland, at the invitation of John Lancaster Spalding, the first Bishop of Peoria. It was one of the communities which left that religious congregation to split off and become part of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance, based in Rome, Italy.

The schools merged into one co-educational school, Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute in 1973.^[2] AOL/SI (also known as Academy/Spalding) was merged with Bergan High School to form Peoria Notre Dame High School in 1988, and the campus was closed at the end of the 1988–1989 school year.

Buildings on the campus are contributing properties of the North Side Historic District.

Notable alumni

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (SI, 1913)
Archbishop Gerald Thomas Bergan (SI)
Pete Vonachen (SI)
General Wayne A. Downing (SI)
Brigadier General Frank Rezac (SI, 1962)
Congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (SI, 1963)
Congressman Darin LaHood (AOL/SI, 1986)
USDA chemist Timothy L. Mounts
New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi (AOL/SI)
Jim Ardis (SI, 1977)^[3]

References

↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Our History". Peoria, Illinois: Peoria Notre Dame High School. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
↑ "Mayor Jim Ardis". City of Peoria, IL. Retrieved 21 October 2015.

Diocese of Peoria

Bishops	Ordinaries John Lancaster Spalding Edmund Michael Dunne Joseph Henry Leo Schlarman William Edward Cousins John Baptist Franz Edward William O'Rourke John J. Myers Daniel R. Jenky Auxiliary Peter Joseph O'Reilly

Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria Parishes Holy Trinity Church, Bloomington Shrine Queen of the Holy Rosary Memorial Shrine

Education	Newman Centers St. John's Catholic Newman Center, Champaign High Schools Alleman High School, Rock Island Central Catholic High School, Bloomington Marquette High School, Ottawa Notre Dame High School, Peoria St. Bede Academy, Peru St. Thomas More High School, Champaign Schlarman Academy, Danville Former High Schools Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute, Peoria Bergan High School, Peoria Villa de Chantal, Rock Island

Priests	Gerald Thomas Bergan James Ryan John George Alleman Fulton J. Sheen

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