The Visitation: Rock Island; Richmond; Wytheville; Dubuque; St Paul; Georgetown, KY; Tacoma; Springfield; Toledo; Philadelphia

Rock Island, IL's, Villa de Chantal closed in the 1970s. The next occupant was a child care center.  While in the process of being converted into senior housing, a fire gutted the interior. The property was sold to the local school district, who razed the remainder of the structure. 

The lady who authored this article managed to save the distinctive entrance archway. They had hoped to reassemble it in the cemetery near the graves of the Visitandines who died there.  

http://www.rockislandpreservation.org/postcards-from-home/villa-de-chantal/

Story regarding the arch:

https://qctimes.com/news/local/education/villa-de-chantal-arch-plans-remain-up-in-air/article_37f4e2f0-ed4a-11df-b5fa-001cc4c002e0.html

Richmond, VA's, former monastery is now an ecumenical residential prayer center:

https://www.richmondhillva.org/

The nuns built a new monastery out in Rockville:

http://www.visitmontemaria.com/

Wytheville, VA's, Visitation Academy is shown here in 1909: 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wytheville-virginia-academy-443647840

The property suffered a catastrophic fire in 1920.  The convent pictured in Dehey is likely the replacement. 

According to the Richmond Hill website, the Wytheville Visitation closed in 1940. The Sisters joined the Richmond monastery. 

Dubuque, IA, has a diocesan Visitation congregation. Their history page explains this difference at the bottom of the page:

http://www.sistersofthevisitationdbq.org/History/History.html

The former academy was bought by Loras College. The oldest part of the building was converted to a men's dormitory. In 2016, the cupola was struck by lightning, damaging the dorm. A year later, the college voted to raze the building:

http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=ACADEMY_OF_THE_VISITATION_(THE)

Visitation School was founded in St Paul, MN. They later moved to Mendota Heights:

https://www.visitation.net/about-vis/salesian2

There are sisters at the school to ensure that Salesian spiritually is taught properly.  Here's a picture of the former St Paul convent:

http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/largerimage?irn=10348052&catirn=10716999&return=

This author had corresponded with the Cardome Visitation (Georgetown, KY), community while in college. Unfortunately, they closed before I could get there. The building is now used for the arts:

https://cardome.org/

When Visitation Villa in Tacoma, WA, closed, the nuns built a Mid-Century Modern monastery. When the convent closed, the building was repurposed for secular use:

https://www.dumasbaycentre.com/

Historical marker for the school:

https://www.lakewoodhistorical.org/news/details.php?newsid=38

The Mansion at Elfindale in Springfield, MO, is the reuse of the St de Chantal Academy buildings:

https://mansionatelfindale.com/

The Visitation of Toledo, OH, has always been contemplative. They are still very much alive:

https://toledovisitation.org/

The Philadelphia, PA, Visitation was refounded after persecution in Mexico, where the Sisters had answered the call to establish a school.  Upon their return to Pennsylvania, they became purely contemplative:

https://www.visitationnuns.org/index.php

Vocational Link:

First Federation:

https://visitationsistersfirstfederation.org/

The Second Federation of the Visitation has unpublished their clearinghouse website. 

As far as I can tell, there is not a clearinghouse website for the Visitation schools, either. 

The congregations of the Sisters of Charity will be the next post.