Beginnings: the Lisle Campus
April, 1896

On April 1, 1896, the Abbey purchased the Morris Neff Farm near Lisle. On April 27, the sum of $6,152.00 was paid for the farm. On April 28, Brother Stanislaus Opava went to Lisle to take charge. He was joined the next day by Abbott John Nepomucene Jaeger and Brother Novice Placid Slejs. Adam Neff, son of the original owner, stayed on to work on the farm for a monthly salary of $20.00. The building, generally called "the stone house", is still in use today.

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Up until 1896, the limestone house served as the Neff farmhouse.	Lisle land acquisition by St. Procopius Abbey		Bro. Stanislaus Ptacek in front of the farm house soon after its purchase in 1896.
Mr. Arthur Denardo currently resides in the Stone House		The Stone House with Arthur Denardo 1.30 minute video clip

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The Stone House

with Arthur Denardo

1.30 minute video clip