Since 1877, the school now known as University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy has provided legions of young men with a rigorous, top-flight education, a reverence for Christian values, and the inspiration to live out the Jesuits' call to action: to be men for others. The school's commitment to Detroit is unparalleled and it remains the oldest Catholic high school still operating in the city. In the winter of 1876-77, Thomas O'Neill, Jesuit provincial superior in St. Louis, sent John Baptiste Miege to found the school and serve as its first president. Caspar Henry Borgess, who had come to Detroit from Cincinnati on May 8, 1870, was cofounder of the school. Originally located at the Trowbridge Mansion on Jefferson Avenue, in 1890 the school moved across the street to Dowling Hall to accommodate a growing student body. Then in the late 1920s construction of the new building began at 8400 S. Cambridge near Seven Mile Road, under John P.

McNichols, president of the University of Detroit, and the new building opened in September 1931.