Abington Township commissioner Drew Rothman announced over the weekend that the demolition of St. Basil Academy in Jenkintown, which had been scheduled for Monday, April 14, will be delayed until May.

The property was officially transferred to the Fort Washington-based Toll Brothers on February 3. The home construction company plans to construct a 55+ active-adult community consisting of 150 home sites at 711 Fox Chase Road.

Toll Brothers submitted a land development application to Abington Township in 2023. The pandemic forced the 90-year-old, 29.98-acre campus and 73,901 square foot building to shut down for good in the spring of 2021.

Alumni recently gathered together to say goodbye, 6ABC reported.

“This was a beautiful place with 90 years of memories. We have educated the hearts and minds of thousands of young women throughout the Philadelphia area and it’s just sad to know that this is the end, the actual end,” said Hollie Havens, president of the alumni association.

“My daughter went here so I was an alum, a teacher, and a parent so this is triply hard for me because I lived and breathed this school,” Terry Dillinger said.

“Everybody was equal and we were all unified. There was not this group against that group. You never had to put on. You could totally be yourself whether, it was weird, a jock, somebody who was academically-minded,” said Kimberly Szypula, class of 1992.

6ABC’s video coverage is below:

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