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A two storey brick residence on approximately one acre of land, No.5 Dawson Street, was purchased for £1,000 for a day school.  It may have been the original intention for a day school to have been on the same site as the boarding school in Sturt Street but the distance and isolation of the Mary’s Mount site must almost immediately have made this impractical.

Loreto Dawson Street opened on 4th November, 1875 just 4 months after the sisters had arrived from Ireland. Although nominally a day school there were usually 3 or 4 boarders recorded up until 1940.  The day school was for girls but also took boys up to grade 3.

The nuns travelled by horse drawn cab, the “convent cab”, provided by the Bishop, to Dawson Street from Mary’s Mount every morning to teach.  In the mornings before the children arrived the school had to be aired and dusted.  At the end of the day the two storeys had to be cleaned and prepared for the next day before the sisters returned to Mary’s Mount to take part in their community roles and duties for the boarders.

A community of sisters lived and worked at Dawson Street from 1882 until 1982.

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“Loreto” An All College Magazine
Title
“Loreto” An All College Magazine
Series Number
199
Start Date
1945
End Date
1964
Location
Province Archives, Ballarat
Section
Missions
Agency
Coorparoo
View Record
Account Books, Dawson Street
Title
Account Books, Dawson Street
Series Number
139
Start Date
1898
End Date
1937
Location
Province Archives, Ballarat
Section
Missions
Agency
Dawson Street, Ballarat
View Record
Title
Alphabetical List of Pupils of Loreto Convent Day School, Dawson Street
Series Number
219
Start Date
1875
End Date
1975
Location
Province Archives, Ballarat
Section
Missions
Agency
Dawson Street, Ballarat
View Record
Dawson Street Children’s Account Books
Title
Dawson Street Children’s Account Books
Series Number
311
Start Date
1898
End Date
1946
Location
Province Archives, Ballarat
Section
Missions
Agency
Dawson Street, Ballarat
View Record
Title
Loreto Dawson Street Early Pupils, c.1937
Series Number
319
Start Date
1937
End Date
-
Location
Province Archives, Ballarat
Section
Missions
Agency
Dawson Street, Ballarat
View Record
Records Relating to Dawson Street
Title
Records Relating to Dawson Street
Series Number
16
Start Date
-
End Date
-
Location
Loreto College Ballarat Archives
Section
Missions
Agency
Dawson Street, Ballarat
View Record
Records Relating to Dawson Street, Ballarat
Title
Records Relating to Dawson Street, Ballarat
Series Number
33
Start Date
-
End Date
-
Location
Province Archives, Ballarat
Section
Missions
Agency
Dawson Street, Ballarat
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