Convent of Bon Secours, South Elevation Looking North East

ID: 150 ~ Source: DC Preservation League Photo Repository
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Convent of Bon Secours, South Elevation Looking North East
This file appears in: Convent of Bon Secours

This building, reminiscent of an Italianate villa, was erected in Tenleytown as the Washington chapter house for the Sisters of Bon Secours, a nursing order founded in France in 1824. The order arrived in the United States in the 1880s, establishing…