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The remains here seem to be holding up well.
I always thought Convent was just where the nuns lived and the priests in a rectory... maybe that came later.
Convent
Behind the church are the remains of the convent. It housed missionaries and lay assistants. In 1785, there were nine rooms downstairs and five rooms upstairs. Benedictine monks started a major reconstruction of the convent in 1861 but it was never completed.
The rounded Roman arches and the pointed Gothic arches on the top floor of the convento are original. The Gothic arches constructed with red bricks on the bottom floor are from the Benedictine Monk restoration. Because of the Civil War and a tuberculosis outbreak, the project was never completed, and the monks moved back to Philadelphia.
I always thought Convent was just where the nuns lived and the priests in a rectory... maybe that came later.
Convent
Behind the church are the remains of the convent. It housed missionaries and lay assistants. In 1785, there were nine rooms downstairs and five rooms upstairs. Benedictine monks started a major reconstruction of the convent in 1861 but it was never completed.
The rounded Roman arches and the pointed Gothic arches on the top floor of the convento are original. The Gothic arches constructed with red bricks on the bottom floor are from the Benedictine Monk restoration. Because of the Civil War and a tuberculosis outbreak, the project was never completed, and the monks moved back to Philadelphia.