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in its history—the Foundation for the Future campaign—to support the construction of an underground parking garage and a new athletic complex atop it. Starting in 2019, the previous gym was removed, the site was excavated for a five-level, 243-vehicle garage, and a new Jeanne Marie McAteer Lee Athletic Complex rose at the Roy Street end of the HNA campus. The project was completed in fall 2020.
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By 2018, the Academy recognized challenges to the school’s long-term sustainability, notably the acute lack of parking in a rapidly changing Capitol Hill neighborhood and insufficient facilities for a thriving athletics program. In response, the school undertook one of the largest capital initiatives
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The adjacent Jeanne Marie McAteer Lee Gymnasium was built in 1990 on what was previously tennis courts. In 2017, the school opened the Mary Herche Pavilion, a 3-story structure that connects the original building and the gym, and features a student commons area, a fitness center for all students and
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Holy Names Academy has teams for Basketball, Bowling, Cheer, Crew, Cross Country, Flag Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Lacrosse, Slowpitch Softball, Soccer, Softball, Swim/Dive, Tennis, Track/Field, Ultimate Frisbee, and Volleyball. It has won of a total of 18 team state titles in the following sports:
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By 1904 planned regrading works on Jackson Street meant another move for the school to what would be their present home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1908. The building on 7th Avenue was demolished that same year. The architect of the new domed
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from 1895 stated: "Thorough instruction is given in all the English branches, art, music, elocution and modern languages. Plain sewing and every variety of fancy needlework taught without extra charge, stenography and typewriting are among the elective studies."
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by the U.S. Department of Education four separate times, and has been multiple times ranked among "America's Most Challenging High Schools" in an annual survey by The Washington Post.
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was added in 1908. The normal school closed in 1930, the grade school in 1963, and the boarding school in 1967.
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style crowned with a tall steeple. It was located on 7th Avenue near Jackson Street in what is now in the
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style, was Albert Breitung. Its design has been preserved over the years with few exterior changes.
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Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (19 August 2014).
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faculty, an expanded cafeteria with outdoor seating, and other improvements.
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The school's present building shortly after its completion in 1908
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SNJM (1965), theologian, scholar, Dean of Academic Affairs at
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Statue of Mary with the child Jesus on the building's exterior
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The school was officially founded on June 15, 1880, by the
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The school's first permanent building photographed in 1905
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Seattle
King County
Washington
Coordinates
47°37′34.19″N 122°18′14.94″W / 47.6261639°N 122.3041500°W / 47.6261639; -122.3041500
Private
Roman Catholic
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
CEEB code
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12
WIAA
Seattle Metropolitan League
NWAIS
Cognia
holynames-sea.org
Catholic
high school
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Seattle's
Capitol Hill
Washington
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
Blue Ribbon School
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

downtown Seattle
Second Empire
Chinatown/International District

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