6 - Financial Report on Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame

6

Financial Report on Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame

2 pp; manuscript

An account by Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. detailing the founding, property acquisitions, and early financial standing of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame, California, from late 1926 through mid-1929. After its formal establishment and canonical approval from Rome, the parish purchased initial lots on Cortez Avenue for $35,000, converting an existing Protestant Guild Hall into a church and a residence into a parochial school that quickly grew to serve 150 children under the Sisters of Mercy. Following a strategic $22,000 land expansion in March 1929, the total property value reached $57,000; within just two years and five months, local parishioners funded $12,000 in improvements and cut the core debt down to $45,000, which remained split between loans from the Archbishop’s Office and the American Trust Company.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition