When does a 17,000-square-foot house become a home?
When the Jesuit priests serving Loyola Blakefield move into it next year. Plans are under way for the construction of a 17,000-square-foot rectory at the preparatory school that serves grades six through 12 on its 60-acre campus at 500 Chestnut Ave. in Towson.
The rectory would replace the former Enten residence, which the school owns, on Chestnut Avenue adjacent to Loyola Blakefield's Hartigan Field, according to a Baltimore County Design Review Panel.
The new two-story structure with a half basement would use masonry, stucco and Butler stone to resemble the appearance of adjacent Knott Hall.
The residence would have 12 suites and two guest rooms, as well as a common kitchen, common living areas and a chapel.
Narrower than the existing Enten house, but far deeper, the rectory "will be designed to still look like a regular house from the street," explained the school's president, the Rev. Thomas Pesci.
The new structure would be hidden from southbound traffic on Chestnut by trees, but visible to northbound traffic traveling up the hill.
The developer is the Corporation of the Roman Catholic Clergymen, an arm of the Jesuits.
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Интересно написано....но многое остается непонятнымb
Im so glad you have the meens to build all these helpful buildings for your fellow Jesuits so they can learn and grow from your example. Oh...hello...forgot. You got the money from selling off property that my family lived on for almost 100 years and ruined us. You ruined several other families as well. Relocating didnt work. Three years later and all we dream of is home. We drive by the farmhouse almost every day and slowly watch a house, that had so much love and so many memories, crumble to the ground. Had Father McGroarty been around, we would ahve still been there because he gave me his word I would raise my children there. I have buried these feelings until today, when a Jesuit Priest was named Pope. AND...took the name of Francis. The farm was St. Francis Xavier aka Old Bohemia. How ironic and I bet your all celebrating. Little does this new Pope know what sorrow his newly appionted name brings to my family.
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