When I was looking up information about San Antonio, FL, a few weeks ago, this picture of a grand old building popped up:
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This is the Sultenfuss Hotel, built by William Sultenfuss in the late 1800's. Sultenfuss was a lumber yard and mill magnate in San Antonio, Florida. The hotel was never used in that capacity as the town folk objected that it might draw the wrong sort of people. In other words, people who didn't practice the Catholic faith. This was a total eye-opener for me, given that the First Amendment to our Constitution establishes the freedom of religion. Edmund Dunne apparently didn't feel that freedom existed in the area and founded the colony and town of San Antonio on the premise that it would be a safe haven for Catholics where they could settle and live and avoid persecution from the predominantly Protestant state of Florida. Non-Catholics need not apply!
This was posted on June 14, 1988:
The San Antonio News states:
It is pretty well settled now that we are to have a foundation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in San Antonio. They have bought the Sultenfuss Hotel property and the interior of the building is being remodeled with the expectation of having it ready for school by the first Monday in September. ...
In 1911 the building was moved a half mile to the hilltop where Holy Name Monastery now stands.The building was raised up on log rollers, encircled with a steel cable, and with a winch and two oxen circling a dead-man timber buried 50 feet ahead of the house, it was inched forward. Only one setting of the logs could be accomplished in a day. It took six summer weeks to complete the move — and the best part is — the Sisters and students lived in it while the house was being moved!
The Sisters of St. Joseph still live, worship and work together in San Antonio, FL. The original building was demolished in 1960.
I suppose it's the same as red lining, people of color and Jewish were not allowed to buy homes in certain areas.
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