In 1914, when the Calcutta Improvement Trust was formed for opening up the congested parts of the city. One of the roads, 100 feet wide, was designed to run through Chowringee Road to the cathedral in Moorghihatta, where it was to run through the Catholic male orphanage. This would leave CMO without a playground and kitchen. On a visit to St Patrick's Asansol, Br. Arsenius Ryan, the provincial of the Brothers, inspected an open partly cultivated plot of 50 bighas as a possible site for the orphanage. The site was purchased and, with the addition of surrounding plots, it increased to 390 bighas, the property on which St. Vincent's now stands. Br Joseph Moyes was selected to superintend the erection of the buildings.