Two orders of nuns successively ran facilities at the site on South Flores Street before...
Villa Maria Home for Girls, as it was then known, found its first home at 103 City St. in the King William Historic District. The residence for “working girls of modest means” occupied the house, built in 1895, for a few years in the late 1950s.I attended Briscoe Elementary School during the late 1950s to the early ’60s. I remember next to Briscoe was Stribling Street, and the next lot was a huge mansion that was later torn down, I think by the early ’70s.
More than 4 acres of land had been conveyed in 1874 by Bishop C.M. Dubuis to the high-achieving Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, best-known as founders of Santa Rosa Infirmary and Incarnate Word Academy, now Christus Santa Rosa Health System and the University of the Incarnate Word. Not until 1894 would the order establish St. Francis Home for the Aged, moving their ministry to the aged and infirm from Santa Rosa to the new quarters with room to grow.
Residents ranged from elderly itinerant workers who had collapsed on the job to Concepcion Callaghan Navarro, mother of Mayor Bryan Callaghan. A 1925 Community Chest appeal for donations to a common fund that aided local charities includes a description of the “sunset home for the friendless aged,” where “50 inmates are cared for, one paying $50 a month and 18 paying part of their keep,” while “the others must be supported by charity.” With more donations, says the appeal, the home could “accommodate 100 patients.”
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