Images of the Catholic school’s students were used to design a mural that covers one side of the three-story building.
A joyful mural on the side of Austin’s St. Angela School welcomes students, teachers and neighbors to the site of a former church, convent and rectory.
Painted images of former students hug, clap, turn book pages and throw their heads back with laughter in a three-story-tall illustration highlighted with shades of green, yellow and blue. Their smiles burst off a wall that had been blank and hidden for decades by the former St. Angela Catholic Church at 1332 N. Massasoit Ave.
“The church had actually been 17 inches away from the south school wall,” says Lynn Fredrick, interim director of advancement at the school. “So we knew, as soon as we had it tuck-pointed, it was in good shape. We knew we wanted a mural there.” Tuck-pointing involves repairing and replacing deteriorated motor between bricks.
The school was built in 1920. The last iteration of the church — a 1,200-seat gothic building — broke ground in 1949, according to a St.
