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Los Gatos Cloister Destroyed by Landslide
Heavy rains nearly 80 years ago caused great damage to what is now the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center up above College Hill in downtown Los Gatos.
In the early morning of Dec. 24, 1932, heavy rain started a landslide which demolished more than half of an erected cloister adjoining what was called the novices' wing, today the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, at 300 College Ave., up above downtown Los Gatos.
The cloister was finished by the novices and juniors, or men who had entered the religious order, after they spent more than two years removing several hundred tons of earth.
Source: This photograph was taken from the Novitiate Collection repository of the Hooked on Los Gatos, the Library and Museum History Project
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