Mary Arden's Farm Mary Arden's Farm Mary Arden's Farm, also known as Mary Arden's House, is the farmhouse of Mary Shakespeare (née Arden), the mother of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Because of confusion about the actual house inhabited by Mary in the mid-sixteenth century, the term may refer either of two houses. Both are grade I listed and located in the village of Wilmcote, about three miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. A house wrongly identified as Mary Arden's (it actually belonged to a neighbour) was bought by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1930 and refurnished in the Tudor style.This timber framed house has been maintained
Mother Mary Louis of St. Joseph. The New York Times obituary of May 24, 1932 proclaimed Mother Mary Louis’ work of 40 years, "phenomenal." In 1934 the Sisters of St. Joseph took up plans which Mother Mary Louis had begun shortly before her illness, to build an Academy for girls in Queens County, NY. At the urging of Archbishop Thomas Molloy, the Congregation named this new Academy in memory of Mother Mary Louis. The Mary Louis Academy opened its doors in September 1936. Upon the recommendation of the New York City Council, the Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of