It looks almost depilated after losing all its ornamentation - like a face with no eyebrows - but after more than 125 years as a school, the present-day Near North Montessori school must have great bones. Built through the efforts of Mother Lauretta Lubowidzka and Mother Mary Frances Siedliska, Holy Family Academy was designed by the obscure Chicago firm of Diethelm & Roy and completed in 1892.