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Article: Mount St. Scholastica plans to raze its administration building
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- St. Joseph News-Press
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- November 29, 2005
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ATCHISON, Kan. - The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica
have announced plans to raze the administration building that has
served the monastic community for more than 80 years.
"The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica are adjusting to
changing times," said Sister Anne Shepard, prioress. "We have
finalized a sad but necessary decision."
No date has been set for razing the building sometime in 2006.
Since 1990, costs of maintaining the underused building have
spiraled as expenses mounted, Sister Shepard said in a statement. For
several years, costs have exceeded income produced by the
administration building.
The five-story, 171,000-square-foot brick building was built in ...