It’s a beautiful church and the area around it is beautiful too. I “drove around” a little bit and love the old houses. Even the newer houses are built in similar styles so they fit right in. Seems like nice place to have grown up.
Thank you. Yes, Kearny was a nice place in the fifties and sixties when I was a kid. Grew up in a large, rambling old Victorian house that over time my dad altered a lot.
It had a large wrap around porch, a wood burning stove in the kitchen, lots of stained glass windows, hardwood floors etc. He tore all that out.
It was the sixties and every thing was supposed to be ‘’modern’’.
At one time on Midland Ave. there was St. Stephens School which I attended for a time. Back in the days of the nuns in the ‘’penguin’’ suits but the school closed it’s door a long time ago.
The town itself was named after it’s most famous local son Union General Phil Kearny who, unfortunately , was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Sept.1, 1862.