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Documents and correspondences; 1913 to 1956; Evansville; Ferdinand; Rome
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The Ferdinand Benedictines built St. Benedict's Convent on leased land next to St. Benedict's Church in 1913-1914.
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This file contains 13 documents relating to the building of St. Benedict's Convent in Evansville, Indiana, in 1913 on leased land and their selling it to the parish/diocese in 1955. See "Finding Aids" for a history of the papers and their signers.
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Finding aids
FINDING AID 344 -- Documents
St. Benedict's Convent
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Documents in Drop File 344
Date Description Signer
April 25, 1913 Property Lease Agreement Unsigned
Sept. 17, 1913 Property Lease Agreement Joseph Chartrand, Co-
adjutor Bishop for the
Diocese of Indianapolis,
Sister M. Scholastica
Stockman, Prioress
Sept. 18, 1913 Letter from Contractor E. A. Jochim, Contractor
Jochim and Hormuth
Oct. 1, 1913 Agreement (in duplicate) Sister M. Scholastica
with Jochim and Hormuth, Stockman, Prioress
Contractors E. A. Jochim, Contractor
Aug. 17, 1927 Note about purchasing more Reverend Father Martin
property with 1913 and 1914 Hoppenjans, O.S.B.,
receipts. Blue piece of Pastor
paper attached referring to
sale of house in 1956.
Sept. 1, 1927 Father Martin Hoppenjans, O.S.B., Pastor Note to Mother Seraphine Kordes concerning purchase of additional property.
Additional property of Lot 10 in William Bierbower Subdivision. Letter of October 30, 2003 from Tim Hubert of Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Shoulders , regarding same property. Email from Fr. Goeffery Muller, March 9, 2018 regarding same property. Letter from Tim Hubert of March 16, 2018 and attached Special Warranty Deed conveying said property from the Sisters of St. Benedict to the Diocese of Evansville, Indiana.
......., 1933 Property lease agreements
August 9, 1934 (Dates are confusing on Mother M. Seraphine Kordes,
August 9, 1944 document.) Document is Prioress
marked "Void." Joseph E. Ritter, Bishop of
Indianapolis
Dec. 31, 1937 Information about a new Father Lambert Anslinger