Sacred Heart Academy was organized in 1889 as a school for St. Charles Church, which had been established in 1872. That year a new church was built here and the parish was renamed Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Father John J. Crowley moved the old church to an adjacent lot and used it as a school run by Dominican Sisters. Saginaw architect Clarence W. Cowles designed this building, which was constructed in 1908. The addition was built in 1955, and the elementary school in 1964.