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The '''College of Saint Mary-of-the-Wasatch''' was a [[Private school|private]], [[Catholic]] [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]], later '''St. Mary of the Wasatch High School''', located in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], from 1875 to 1969.  It was operated by the [[Sisters of the Holy Cross]] primarily as a [[sisters' college]].
The school was located in the eastern reaches of Salt Lake City, in the foothills of the [[Wasatch Range]].  In addition to being home to the college and high school, and later a high school only, it also housed a [[convent]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.utahcatholicdiocese.org/church/archive_detail.php?idx=51&PHPSESSID=8efb9414e512b0b7c5d3ab1ad0339834|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312194301/http://www.utahcatholicdiocese.org/church/archive_detail.php?idx=51&PHPSESSID=8efb9414e512b0b7c5d3ab1ad0339834|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 12, 2007|title=Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake|date=March 12, 2007}}</ref>  Starting in 1931, it was affiliated with the Sisters-run [[Holy Cross Hospital - Salt Lake|Holy Cross Hospital]] [[Nursing school|nursing college]], which itself closed in 1973, a year after the school was demolished in 1972 to make way for a housing subdivision.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.utah.gov/Findaids/B01352/b1352.html |title=Archived copy |website=history.utah.gov |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718045207/http://history.utah.gov/Findaids/B01352/b1352.html |archive-date=18 July 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=15 Bytes |date=2012-06-07 |title=Salt Lake Moderns Tour of St. Mary's |url=https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/salt-lake-moderns-tour-of-st-marys/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=Artists of Utah's 15 Bytes |language=en-US}}</ref> One of the stone gates of the entrance was incorporated into a house.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Mary of the Wasatch p.2 |url=https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=436680 |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=collections.lib.utah.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=Oct 2, 2014 |title=Memorandum, Salt Lake City Planning Division Community & Economic Development Department |url=https://www.slcdocs.com/Planning/HLC/2014/Price.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222114834/https://www.slcdocs.com/Planning/HLC/2014/Price.pdf |archive-date=December 22, 2014 |access-date=2024-02-12}}</ref> It is the last place where teenager [[Disappearance of Reed Jeppson|Reed Taylor Jeppson]] was seen in 1964.
Its records are held in the Sisters of the Holy Cross Archives in [[Notre Dame, Indiana|Notre Dame]], [[Indiana]].
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090325094159/http://www.cscsisters.org/archives/archives_colleges.asp Sisters of the Holy Cross Colleges]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060501023237/http://www.holycrossministries.org/Historyx.html Holy Cross Ministries: History]
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