"Log Cottage at Carondelet, the first Mother-House of the Sisters of St. Joseph in America. This was Convent, school, and Boarding Home for pupils. The outside ladder was the only way of reaching the upper story. The buildings of today constitute the governing for 3,000 Sisters of the order, are on the same Carondelet site. The picture is photographed from a painting of the old house, made by one of the Sisters."