 | | 1924: The Richard B. Lloyd House, built in the late 1860s was purchased from Arlington County, who had been using the property as a high school since 1922, by the newly formed St. Agnes School Board of Trustees. |
| 1938: St. Agnes purchased a prefabricated house. The building provided housing for the headmistress and two teachers as well as classroom space. The house was moved in 1944 in anticipation of the construction of Macan Hall. When a house was constructed in 1961 for the headmistress, the house became a residence for the superintendant of buildings and grounds. |
| 1944: After seeing a great need in the community for an Episcopal day school for boys, St. Stephen’s was founded by the Church Schools Diocese of Virginia under the first Headmaster, Rev. Edward Tate. In its first few years the school was third through eighth grade, but quickly expanded a grade a year to the high school levels. The first three high school graduates received their diplomas in 1950. |
| 1947: Macan Hall was dedicated. At the time the building was not officially named. It became “Macan Hall” in 1955 to honor one of St. Agnes’ most beloved headmistresses, Helen Arny Macan. The groundbreaking was held in conjunction with the 1945 school Christmas Service. The speed at which the building was completed was amazing considering the housing and building boom going on the area at the time. |
| 1957: The new St. Stephen’s Campus on Seminary road was dedicated. The main building was dedicated in honor of The Rev. Edward E. Tate. The Gymnasium was dedicated in honor of The Rt. Rev. Frederick D. Goodwin, Bishop, Diocese of Virginia, and President of the Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia. The construction was completed in less than two years. |
| 1967: Sinclair Hall was dedicated to Martha Baytop Sinclair, one of the original teachers at St. Agnes School. Miss Sinclair served the school in many capacities during her almost 50-years tenure. She was a teacher, a yearbook advisor, the boarding school director, and the head of the Lower School and the Middle School. Sinclair Hall provided the Lower School with a library, classrooms, music and art rooms, and a large multipurpose room. |
| 1981: The track field at St. Stephen’s was renovated and named for General Phillip Draper. At the time of the track’s completion, it was considered the finest track in the Washington Metropolitan Area, with a regulation steeplechase field and a rubberized track surface. General Draper was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was a well known football and lacrosse player. He later served as West Point’s athletic manager. His daughter attended St. Agnes and his two grandsons were involved in track & field, and cross country at St. Stephen’s. |
| 1988: A new St. Stephen’s Lower School campus was dedicated. The building had been Ascension Academy, an independent Catholic school, which St. Stephen’s purchased from the Ascension Board. This prevented the demolition of the campus and provided a place to preserve the records of Ascension Academy. The campus was named for Virginia E. “Jinx” Hazel. This property was acquired by the merged St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in the early 1990s to provide a dedicated Middle School campus. |
| 1993: The baseball field was renovated and named “Thompson Field” in honor of Albert L. Thompson, Sr., former groundskeeper for St. Stephen’s, and Albert L. “Sleepy” Thompson, Jr. former coach and athletic director for St. Stephen’s. Thompson Field encompasses the baseball field and the side field is used for a variety of sports. |
| 2003: The new Upper School Chapel & Performing Arts Center is dedicated. This new stage and auditorium finally provided enough comfortable seating for the entire Upper School community to gather together, either for assemblies and chapel, or for award presentations and special events. The new seating, stage and acoustics provided the school with a professional space for all kinds of gatherings and performances. The building also houses several performance arts classrooms, a contemplative prayer room and a beautiful stained glass window that spans the back wall of the stage. |
| | | 1925: St. Agnes School offered a co-educational day school program from Kindergarten through eighth grade and a high school program for girls, with the option to board if necessary. With the prospect of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School for Boys opening in 1944, St. Agnes gradually became co-educational only through the third grade. |
| 1942: As their student population expanded with local growth, St. Agnes School built the “Little Red Schoolhouse” behind Lloyd House. The building stood until 1988 when it was torn down to make way for MacKinnon Hall. |
| 1944: The original campus for St. Stephen’s was a five-acre property on Russell Road. The school was quickly filled to capacity, and an addition was soon built. With booming post-war attendance, the need for a newer and larger campus became clear. |
| 1955: Daniel Gym was dedicated in memory of John Moncure Daniel. Mr. Daniel joined the St. Agnes Board of Trustees in 1925 and later served as chairman. |
| 1958: Moss Football Field was dedicated at St. Stephen’s in honor of Dr. Fred A. Moss, who sold the land to the Church School System in 1954 to build the St. Stephen’s campus. Dr. Moss spoke at the dedication and quoted The Duke of Wellington that, “The battle of Waterloo was won on the cricket fields of England” referring to the importance of education and athletic training of youth in the founding of a great society. |
| 1975: A new wing and updated entrance was completed at St. Stephen’s. The new wing offered expanded and updated science classrooms and labs as well as additional classrooms. The wing was dedicated to Colonel Thomas Gale, a teacher at the Upper School who taught math from 1947 until 1963. |
| 1982: McBride Hall was completed at the Lower School and named in honor of Roberta C. McBride, who served as St. Agnes’ headmistress from 1951 until her retirement in 1977. The building was the first dedicated space for Middle School students and provided several new air-conditioned classrooms as well as science labs and music rooms. The students and staff pitched in by moving all the building contents themselves. |
| 1989: Dedication of Carol Cox MacKinnon Hall. The structure was built on the site of the “Little Red House” and another small brick house. Carol MacKinnon had served St. Agnes School as a kindergarten teacher and the director of the Alumni Office. Appropriately the building named in her honor houses the classrooms for junior kindergarten through the second grade. Its multi-purpose room is large enough to accommodate the entire lower school chapel service and also provides an indoor athletic area. |
| 1996: As part of the New Century Fund campaign, all three school campuses underwent updates and renovations. The Upper School saw the most dramatic changes with a new building entrance, new classrooms and major improvements. The Middle School also received an updated entryway to give the school campuses a more unified look. |
| 2006: Dedication of the Kelleher Field for Soccer & Lacrosse. Matthew Kelleher was a three-sport athlete at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes who played football, basketball, and lacrosse. After his death in 2003, a year after his college graduation, friends, family and other members of the school community dedicated the renovated soccer & lacrosse field in his memory. |
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