History
Mother Catherine McAuley founder of the Congregation of the Religious Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland, on December 12, 1831. Mother M. Patricia Joseph Waldron brought the Sisters of Mercy to Philadelphia in August 1861. The Academy of the Sisters of Mercy officially opened on Spring Garden Street in the parish of the Assumption. Two years later the school was moved to a private residence at the corner of Broad Street and Columbia Avenue.
In 1947, the Sisters of Mercy bought the Taylor Estate on Sumneytown Pike in Gwynedd Valley. The Academy then moved from Philadelphia and occupied various buildings on the campus until a new Academy building was finished in 1955.
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