Exterior view of St. Dominic Catholic Church. In the spring of 1921, two lots were purchased on Merton Ave. in Eagle Rock and tents were erected on the property. On October 16, 1921 Fr. Francis Driscoll, O.P., who was St. Dominic's first Pastor, offered the first mass inside these tents. By the end of October, a temporary wooden chapel, subsequently known as the "Old Hall" and later "DePorres Hall" was built. In 1925, a convent for the Sisters as well as a school complex were completed; St. Dominic's Catholic school was founded in 1925, dedicated on February 24th, and officially opened on September 8th, of that year. By 1940, as the congregation and the city's population boomed, construction for a new church building began, and the church opened for public worship on Rosary Sunday, 1941 at its current location (seen here). Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles that derives its name from a massive boulder at the district's northern edge, which contains an indentation that casts a vaguely bird-shaped shadow on the rock at certain times of day. In 1906 Eagle Rock became an independent city and was incorporated in 1911 with a population of approximately 600; in 1920, population had grown to 2,250. Just one year later, in 1921, this figure had leaped to 3,800, and by 2005, the U.S. census estimated the population at approximately 27,875.
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