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Washington Avenue Coalition / Memorial Park in Houston in Harris County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)

St. Thomas High School. . Established 1900 as St. Thomas College, and housed that year in a former Franciscan Monastery built in 1861 at Franklin Avenue and Caroline Street.

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The founders were the Rev. Nicholas Roche, C.S.B., and two other Basilian Fathers. (Their order originated in France in 1822 and expanded into Canada in 1850; the Basilians in Houston were the first in Texas.), When original school suffered hurricane damage, the fathers relocated at Capitol and Main.

In 1903 permanency was assured when Father Roche bought a block of land at Austin and Hadley and constructed Houston's first college preparatory school for boys., Thanks to the foresight of a native Texan, the Rev. T.P. O'