Delayed Vocation or Retirement Community -at -Convent?

Will use this blog post to list the convents turned into retirement communities. Perhaps that is where some "delayed Vocations" may actually be called to. 

This list is a work-in-progress. 

General:

Mercy Housing:

https://www.mercyhousing.org/

Benedictine Living:

https://www.benedictineliving.org/about/ ***NEW***

California:

Monterey:

(Franciscan): 

Ave Maria Senior Living:

https://avemariasl.org/

Connecticut:

Hartford:

(Good Shepherd):

Shepherd Park Apartments:

https://www.schochet.com/Portfolio/agentType/View/PropertyID/48/Shepherd-Park-Apartments

Illinois:

Lemont:

(Franciscan): 

Alvernia Manor:

https://www.alverniamanor.org/

Kentucky:

Nazareth:

(Sisters of Charity of Nazareth):

Nazareth Villages:

https://nazarethvillages.org/

Louisiana:

New Orleans:

(Sisters of Mercy): 

St Margaret's at Mercy:

https://www.stmmercy.org/our-campus/overview-household-model

Maine:

Portland:

(Sisters of Mercy): 

The Motherhouse at Baxter Woods:

https://motherhouse.avestahousing.org/photogallery.aspx

https://stevenssquare.com/the-motherhouse-at-baxter-woods/

Massachusetts:

Roxbury:

(Good Shepherd):

New Horizons at Marlborough Retirement Living:

https://countrycommunities.com/about-us.html

West Springfield:

(Passionist):

Prosper Life Care Monastery Heights:

https://prosperlifecare.com/communities/monastery-heights/

Michigan:

Grand Rapids:

Part of Dominican Center slated for conversion:

https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/main-building-at-dominican-center-in-grand-rapids-to-be-converted-to-low-income-housing-for-seniors

(Good Shepherd):

Villa Maria Retirement Community:

https://thevillamaria.com/

(Sisters of Mercy):

Mt Mercy Apartments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Mercy_Apartments

Monroe:

(Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary): 

IHM Senior Living Center:

https://www.ihmslc.org/

(Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary): 

Norman Towers (Former Hall of the Divine Child):

https://continentalmgt.com/view-listing/?listing_id=1459

Missouri:

Webster Groves:

(Sisters of Mercy): 

Laclede Groves Assisted Living:

https://www.lssliving.org/communities/laclede-groves-st-louis/

Pennsylvania:

Lancaster:

(Adorers of the Precious Blood):

St Anne's Retirement Community:

https://www.stannesrc.org/about-us/

New York:

Buffalo:

(Franciscan): 

St Francis Park:

https://www.saintfrancispark.com/

New York City:

(Ursuline):

Serviam Gardens:

https://www.fordham-bedford.org/serviam

Syracuse:

(Franciscan): 

The Gardens at St Anthony:

https://nascentiahealth.org/health-care-services/housing-the-gardens-st-anthony/

North Dakota:

Devil's Lake:

(Sisters of Mercy): 

Academy Park Apartments:

https://www.metroplains.com/find-a-home/north-dakota/devils-lake/academy-park.html

Ohio:

Dayton:

(Sisters of the Precious Blood):

Maria Joseph Living Care Center:

https://www.nursinghomes.com/oh/dayton/maria-joseph-living-care-center/

Oregon:

Portland:

(Good Shepherd):

Rosemont Court:

https://nwhousing.org/property/rosemont-court/

Pennsylvania:

Erie:

Several former convents or schools on the list:

https://www.hands-erie.org/?search-listings=true

Philadelphia:

(Sisters of Mercy):

https://www.liveyourretirement.com/home/sisters-of-mercy

(Franciscan):

Mt Assisi Place:

https://www.mtassisiplace.com/heritage

Wisconsin:

Milwaukee:

(School Sisters of Notre Dame): 

https://friendsofhousing.com/convent-hill-gardens/

Sinsinawa:

https://www.horizonseniorhousing.com/senior-living-communities-wi-ia-il/senior-housing-options-sinsinawa-wi/academy-at-sinsinawa-senior-apartments

Sisters of the Good Shepherd III: Province of St Louis, MO and St Paul, MN

Province of St Louis, MO:

St Louis:

http://stlouispatina.com/convent-of-the-good-shepherd/

Marygrove:

https://marygrovechildren.org/who-we-are-2/

Article describing the old schools' routine:

https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=SLR19490121-01.2.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------

Chicago, IL:

House of the Good Shepherd:

Chapel in old convent:

https://johnamallin.com/project/house-of-the-good-shepherd-chapel/

Ministry entrusted to Catholic Charities:

https://sistersofthegoodshepherd.com/good-shepherd-ministry-entrusted/

Current apostolate site:

https://www.hgschicago.org/

Milwaukee, WI:

Old convent:

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/mkenh/id/381/

Maryville Academy:

https://www.maryvilleacademy.org/about/our-history/

New Orleans, LA:

Short article about the House of the Good Shepherd:

https://www.myneworleans.com/julia-street-with-poydras-the-parrot-33/

Nuns posing with two gentlemen:

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A4704

Girls on their bunks:

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A1503

Playground at Good Shepherd convent:

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A4242

Girls sewing:

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A4727

Many more photos available in the Louisiana Digital Library. 

Galveston, TX:

Actually in Houston:

No trace, but article from opening:

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/95052173/

Wonderful ministry by former GS worker:

http://mhihouston.org/who-we-are/our-history/

Kansas City, MO; Peoria, IL:

Dehey used this book as a reference. Many photos included. 

https://books.google.com/books?id=x70YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=house+of+the+good+Shepherd+school+kansas+city&source=bl&ots=muOmYtSapJ&sig=ACfU3U3CGHBXp0wXY-c9u7Ov45Yw83813w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisspjNtcnyAhVSHc0KHW5JC1UQ6AF6BAgwEAI#v=onepage&q=house%20of%20the%20good%20Shepherd%20school%20kansas%20city&f=false

Los Angeles, CA:

I'm assuming that this is the right one:

https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Good-Shepherd-Convent-Alumni-Association-of-Southern-California-757820691228235/

San Diego, CA:

Mentioned in an article regarding prostitution. Otherwise, no trace. 

Nashville, TN:

Not a trace. 

Sioux City, IA:

They left in 1963. Scroll down to "50 Years Ago":

https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/columnists/peterson/125-years-ago-badgerow-erects-building-at-fourth-and-iowa/article_2858a351-c225-56b4-8d23-eabb2577458b.html

Legal document describes closure of the House of the Good Shepherd, and sale of property:

https://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/supreme-court/1970/53652-0.html

Postcard:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sioux-City-Iowa-CHICKENS-COME-to-the-Good-Shepherd-s-HOME-TO-ROOST-Porch-1910/293821306446?pageci=44d11150-f8c5-4d3a-a06e-135ebfc71348&redirect=mobile

Province of St Paul, MN:

St Paul, MN:

Former site immortalized:

https://sistersofthegoodshepherd.com/good-shepherd-immortalized-in-park-courtyard/

Dubuque, IA:

The sisters' first home, Hennessy Hall, Lonas College:

https://daily.loras.edu/campus-history-hennessey-hall/

Mt St Rose School:

http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=HOME_OF_THE_GOOD_SHEPHERD

The school was sold to the Dominican Friars. The building became known as the Mt St Rose House of Studies. 

Now known as The Rafters:

http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=RAFTERS

Portland, OR:

Villa St Rose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_St._Rose

Now Rosemont Court:

https://nwhousing.org/property/rosemont-court/

Denver, CO:

Aerial Photo:

https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/64219/

Building itself:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/familiar-huge-red-brick-home-of-the-good-shepherd-on-s-news-photo/161890637?adppopup=true

Destruction after fire:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-old-one-is-gone-a-new-one-is-open-the-home-of-the-good-news-photo/161890633?adppopup=true

Neuville Center:

https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/tennis-court-and-one-of-four-cottages-at-neuville-center-news-photo/161890810?adppopup=true

Omaha, NE:

Postcard:

http://www.nebraskamemories.com/cdm/ref/collection/opl/id/70

Wiki article (includes former addresses):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_Sisters:_Omaha_Order

Seattle, WA:

Repurposed!  Please see the link!

https://historicseattle.org/project/good-shepherd/

Letters from"inmates":

https://www.stjames-cathedral.org/history/holythings/40goodshepherdhome.aspx

Chapel!

https://www.waywardmusic.org/details/venue/

Spokane, WA:

Became the Excelsior Youth Center. 

Vocational Link:

https://sistersofthegoodshepherd.com/are-you-being-called/

Sisters of the Good Shepherd II: Provinces of Mt Florence, NY and Philadelphia, PA

Province of Mt Florence, NY:

Villa Loretta:

While this article discusses the Irish Magdalen Laundries, and this monologue developed to portray them, there are many people who attest to good treatment at Mt St Florence/Villa Loretta in the comments:

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2015/11/magdalen-new-views-of-girls-in-trouble/

Boston (Roxbury), MA:

https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:nv936p71v

Moved to Marlborough. New convent built in 2012:

https://patch.com/massachusetts/marlborough/an--new-convent-being-built-for-marlboroughs-sisters-180f6a0f99

then closed:

https://marlborough.wickedlocal.com/news/20180211/sisters-of-good-shepherd-to-close

175/150 Anniversary:

https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=182240

Madonna Hall now assisted living:

https://countrycommunities.com/about-us.html

Albany, NY:

Now St Anne Institute:

https://stanneinstitute.org/about/

Brooklyn, NY:

Now Good Shepherd Services:

https://goodshepherds.org/about/history/

Hartford, CT:

Albert Sisson House:

http://historicbuildingsct.com/the-albert-sisson-house-1867/

Praise from a former resident:

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2000-06-10-0006100873-story.html

Shepherd Park Apartments:

https://www.schochet.com/Portfolio/agentType/View/PropertyID/48/Shepherd-Park-Apartments

Newark, NJ:

Historical photos:

https://m.facebook.com/566560876726951/posts/house-of-the-good-shepherd-for-wayward-girls13th-avenue-between-8th-9th-streets-/2312986352084386/

Collier Youth Services:

https://www.collieryouthservices.org/Aboutus/history

Providence, RI:

House of the Good Shepherd (closed):

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:House_of_the_Good_Shepherd

Springfield, MA:

https://m.facebook.com/spfldhistory/posts/the-house-of-good-shepherd-way-out-on-wilbraham-road/2338829379756587/

Province of Philadelphia, PA:

Actually in Germantown:

https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7076#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0

https://hiddencityphila.org/2017/02/la-salle-threatens-germantown-landmarks/

(If anyone has an answer to the lady's question in the last comment, please help her out. Thanks). 

Good Shepherd Hall, now headquarters for LaSalle University public safety:

https://www.lasalle.edu/public-safety/

Scranton, PA:

Formerly Lourdesmont:

Postcard of the institution:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/173862048131?redirect=mobile&nma=true&si=%252B0b9HtLxlE80%252Ft6FtnhBCcVbiwc%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Scranton School for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing:

(Now occupies the former Lourdesmont building):

http://thescrantonschool.org/

Graves relocated:

https://fox56.com/news/local/seven-more-bodies-found-during-relocation-of-lackawanna-co-cemetery

Vocational Links will be in the last post. 

Sisters of the Good Shepherd I: Provinces of Baltimore, MD, and Carthage, OH

Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget invited St Mary Euphrasia Pelletier to send her Sisters of the Good Shepherd to America.  She sent them charged with the mission to care for girls who were abused or emotionally troubled, and could not live at home. More on the 175th anniversary of the American foundation here: 

https://sistersofthegoodshepherd.com/175-years-north-america/

This white-habited congregation, which combines Augustinian, Eudist, and Salesian spiritualities, has two lifestyles: active and contemplative. The latter branch was instituted to open a Vocational avenue to the penitential girls who had discerned a call to service. The Good Shepherd constitutions at the time forbade any women of questionable background into the congregation. The "Magdalens" were of Carmelite spirituality, which was reflected in the brown habit.  Women of virtuous lives were permitted to join the Magdalens, as well. 

After Vatican II, the Magdalens were joined with the Good Shepherd sisters. They were renamed the Sisters of the Cross of the Good Shepherd. 

Here's an explanation of the two lifestyles:

https://sistersofthegoodshepherd.com/two-lifestyles/

Website for the Contemplatives:

https://www.sistersofthegoodshepherdcontemplatives.com/

(A footnote about the "Magdalen Laundries". I'm not sure where the term came from. As I understand it, the Good Shepherd sisters were the ones running the Laundries, not the contemplative Magdalens.  I am, in no way, trivializing the trauma experienced by some who were in the Good Shepherd homes, though. Being an abuse victim myself, I can relate to a certain extent. I had to pray extra hard about this post, with the hope that nobody would take offense at what I have written). 

One had to read the small print at the end of this particular chapter to see how many Houses of the Good Shepherd there had been, even in 1930.  Their charism filled in the blanks on many a bishop's pastoral plan.  Today, those blanks are filled by either Catholic Charities or a comparable agency. 

Now, convent tracking by province:

Province of Baltimore, MD:

Https://sistersofthegoodshepherd.com/legacy-of-good-shepherd-left-in-baltimore/

Sale of Halethorpe property:

https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/08/12/72-acre-good-shepherd-site-near-guinness-brewery.html

Billie Holiday:

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/748647755/billie-full-of-grace

Province of Carthage, OH:

The Good Shepherd congregation could sometimes have a unique chapel layout. There were four separate wings off the altar area, one each for the Good Shepherd sisters; the Magdalens; the students; and the staff, respectively. This Facebook page has photos of Our Lady of the Woods outside of Carthage, OH:

https://m.facebook.com/OurLadyOfTheWood/posts

Louisville, KY:

Photos of original convent:

http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/search/field/people/searchterm/Good%20Shepherd/mode/exact

Maryhurst:

https://www.maryhurst.org/

This author very nearly knocked on the Maryhurst door after reading about the RGS in Dehey. I did drive out there to see where they were located. One young male popped up into the window of the building. Creeped out, I decided I was not in the right place. 

Cincinnati, OH:

Bank Street convent:

https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll6/id/4973/

Publicity photo:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/member-of-the-sisters-of-the-good-shepherd-greets-a-young-news-photo/84676157?adppopup=true

Cleveland, OH:

Marycrest is now permanently closed, according to Google search:

https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sisters-good-shepherd

Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Euclid, OH:

(Now owned by the Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity):

https://www.cleveland.com/our-town/2010/12/our_lady_of_lourdes_shrine_in_euclid_holds_a_piece_of_history.html

Columbus, OH:

Buckeye Ranch took over the Rosemont Center, which had been started by the Good Shepherd sisters around the time of the Civil War:

https://www.dispatch.com/article/20121101/news/311019720

Covington/Fort Thomas, KY:

http://www.nkyviews.com/campbell/text/ryan_good_shepherd.html

Detroit, MI:

https://www.nailhed.com/2014/07/sisters-good-shepherd.html

Vista Maria:

https://www.vistamaria.org/about-us

Grand Rapids, MI:

(Now a retirement community!):

Villa Maria:

https://thevillamaria.com/

Indianapolis, IN:

https://indianahistory.org/blog/airing-our-dirty-laundry/

Toledo, OH:

Good Shepherd school is now Aurora Academy, a public charter school:

(Please pray that the thieves are apprehended and brought to justice):

https://www.wtol.com/mobile/article/news/thieves-hit-toledo-school-for-6th-time-steal-and-vandalize/512-c67a8c95-c05e-40a9-839e-8c9f794e7293

Vocational Link will be in the last post.