Question: This past week has been an historical event for our parish of St Joseph and Cabrini with the sale and removal of the rectory in East Pleasant Plain. In what year was this rectory constructed and who was the first resident pastor?
Bonus question: Air conditioning was installed in which building first: the brick church building or the rectory?
Answer: The rectory was built in 1913 and Father Joseph Heller was the first resident pastor.
Bonus Answer:
The rectory was air conditioned when Father Francis Bass was pastor (Fall, 1967 to July, 1973).
Father Louis Leonhardt came to St Joseph's August 2. 1973 and the church was air conditioned in the summer of 1974.
Therefore the rectory was air conditioned first.
(Source of information: Documents printed in "Celebrating Our Centennial Year 1902-2002")