On Sunday 16 May 1915 the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Dr Thomas Carr opened and blessed the new school hall at St Brigid’s, (now St Brigid’s Hall). The hall had been designed by Melbourne architects Kempson and Connolly and built by Daylesford contractor Robert Righetti. Previously students were taught in an old brick building that…
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