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Old buildings

1005, Principale street
916-920, Principale street
910, Principale street
795, Principale street
769, Principale street
757, Principale street
603, Principale street
401, Principale street

351, Principale street
314, Principale street
300, Principale street
235, Principale street
231, Principale street
225, Principale street
203-205, Principale street
117, Principale street

100, Sud street
215, Sud street
108, William street
109, William street
114, William street
245, Albert street
209, Ste-Thérèse street

603, Main Street

Year of construction:
1889

Type of architecture:
Neoclassical style

Historical elements:
Before 1876, the Ste-Rose-de-Lima church was only a branch of Dunham’s Ste-Croix church. It became a parish in 1876, but no priest was assigned to it. The priest from Knowlton came regularly to preach. Ste-Rose-de-Lima got its first parish priest and his first chuch building in 1877. Around 1880, the first Sweetsburg school was held in the basement of the church. On March 2nd , 1888 a fire devastated the church. One year later, a new church was rebuilt on the same site as the old one and the school was relocated there.