Item 19312 - Deering Convent, Portland, ca. 1900
- Item 19312 - Deering Convent, Portland, ca. 1900
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- Item 19312
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Image Info In 1881, Bishop James A. Healy purchased an estate on Stevens Avenue and opened a boarding school for girls, known as St. Joseph's Academy.
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The small building on the left was the first of three St. Joseph Churches. The larger building was the St. Joseph's College, now a home for elderly and nuns on Walton Street.
St Joseph's Academy is the building in back of the Covent.
