The current owners have created a museum space, replicating some part of the original school and displaying a collection of items related to the era, a pistol used in the American Revolution, a dueling pistol from 1810 and various collected busts…
Exhibited in this photo is a real habit worn by the Brothers of the Academy. It is accompanied by toys, sculpture and artwork created in the Academy and documents of recognition to the school.
Father James Maxwell was able to organize the established donor relationships with the Chouteau family of St. Louis as well as other interested families, who ranged from St. Genevieve, New Bourbon and many mining districts around what is now Ironton,…