DESCRIPTION:
Subject: The Lankenau School for Girls, Philadelpha, PA
Condition: Very Good (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: Yes
Year: 1934
Publisher: E. C. Kropp, Co, Milwaukee
Postmark: August 20, 1934, Philadelphia, PA
"After Mary died in 1873, Lankenau established — with the hospital deaconesses' help — the Mary J. Drexel Home for Aged and Homeless Patients of the German Hospital, a nursing home today known as the Mary J. Drexel Home. The organization later opened a girls' school, called first "The School for Girls of the Mary J. Drexel Home" and renamed in 1910 "The Lankenau School for Girls". In June 1942, the school bought a 30-room manor house and a gatehouse on eight acres from the estate of William G. Warden, a son of a founder of Atlantic Refining Company, and moved to 3201 West School House Lane in Philadelphia. In 1972, the school sold the complex to Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (which renovated it and used it as a student center until demolishing it in 2006) and moved again. The school settled at 201 Spring Lane, the current site of Philadelphia's Lankenau High School. In 1901, Lankenau sustained a stroke at his summer home in Cape May, New Jersey. He recovered, but died on August 30 of a second stroke in Philadelphia." (Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Lankenau)
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