History:
The history of St. Joseph's Parish is the history of a determined people, seeking things and working hard to obtain them. So it was that these God-loving people, desiring their children to learn about, and love God, the Ansonia Poles, since the early 1900's sent their children via street-car daily to St. Michael School in Derby.

In 1923, Polish organizations of Ansonia united and approached Rev. Paul Waszko, C.M., then pastor of the Derby parish, and urged him to obtain permission for a school to be built in Ansonia because St. Michael School's enrollment was over 700, and daily transportation to Derby was expensive.

Bishop Nilan would consent to a school being built only if a convent and church were included in the project. When agreement was reached, the organizing began - a parish for Polish speaking Catholics in Ansonia, with a church, school, and convent. Rev. Joseph Studzinski, C.M., purchased for $6,000 a parcel of property in Ansonia near Jewett St. The construction of the school on this land begun in 1925.