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"Grim-Faced Fortress"
Title
"Grim-Faced Fortress"
Date
1968-05-22
Description
Convent of Good Shepherd at 3801 Gravois, is a grim-faced fortress that houses love and understanding that has reclaimed thousands of St. Louis girls in the last 100 years.
Good Shepherd Convent in Shambles
Title
Good Shepherd Convent in Shambles
Date
1969-09-06
Description
"The Good Shepherd Convent reduced to ruins after more than 100 years of operation."
The End of the Good Shepherd Convent
Title
The End of the Good Shepherd Convent
Date
1969-09-06
Description
The Good Shepherd Convent in St. Louis standing amongst debris during demolition.
Knocking Down the Good Shepherd Convent
Title
Knocking Down the Good Shepherd Convent
Date
1969-09-06
Description
The 1960's demolishing of the Good Shepherd convent.
Temporary Accommodation for the City Hospital
Title
Temporary Accommodation for the City Hospital
Date
1949-11-13
Description
"This picture was taken about 1897 was originally the House of Shepherd, but after the Cyclone of 1896 when the city hospital was destroyed it was used as temporary quarters for the hospital. this building is on 17th and Pine, it is from here that the Convent was moved to its present location on the Northwest corner of Gravois and Bamberger."
Internal View of the Good Shepherd Convent Chapel
Title
Internal View of the Good Shepherd Convent Chapel
Date
1935-01-28
Description
"The interior view of the Good Shepherd Convent chapel. Everywhere indoors there are potted plants depriving spotless dormitories, corridors and recreation halls of that grim institutional aspect."
First American Mother-House
Title
First American Mother-House
Description
"Photograph of an oil painting of the two-room log cabin, which was the first American Mother House of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Attic sleeping quarters were reached by an outside ladder, as shown. The cabin convent was on the site of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the order in America will be observed in mid-April."
Holy Family Chapel
Title
Holy Family Chapel
Description
"Outside view of the Holy Family Chapel at the Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the majority of the solemn religious exercises will be held in connection with the observance, in mid-April, of the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet."
Mother House
Title
Mother House
Description
"North and West view of Mother House, Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, at 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo."
Testimonial Dinner
Title
Testimonial Dinner
Date
1960-04-15
Description
"Testimonial dinner proceeds are presented by joseph P. Holloran, co-chairman of the committee which arranged the affair, to Mother Aurelia Mary of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Looking on at the ceremony in the clock tower courtyard of their convent at 6400 Minnesota Ave. are Donald Gunn, co-chairman of the dinner committee with Mr. Holloran, and Sister Francesca Marie, bursar general of the order. Proceeds from the $50-a-plate dinner in the Khorassan Room of the Chase Hotel Feb. 23, totaled $45,797."
Damage Caused to Convent Cross
Title
Damage Caused to Convent Cross
Date
1979-10-31
Description
"Cross at the Convent of Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, at Holly Hills and Minnesota on the South Side, blown loose by winds early Wednesday morning."
Eastern View of Mother House
Title
Eastern View of Mother House
Description
"Eastern view of the present Mother House, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., where the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment, in America, of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, will be celebrated in mid-April."
St. Joseph's Chapel
Title
St. Joseph's Chapel
Description
"St. Joseph's beautiful chapel, the newest building in the group. Far in the background at the right is seen the tower of the oldest building. These rise above a retaining wall 35 feet high, necessitated many years ago by a Herculean "out" made by the Iron Mountain Railroad, in order to obtain earth for a "fill" farther along its line. The Sisters of St. Joseph now own this "flat", which extends to Broadway."
Overlooking the Mississippi
Title
Overlooking the Mississippi
Date
1936-02-09
Description
"St. Joseph's Convent, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, an ancient landmark overlooking the Mississippi River."
Carondelet Log Cottage
Title
Carondelet Log Cottage
Description
"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."
Street View of Convent
Title
Street View of Convent
Date
1949-12-11
Description
"Rear view of St. Joseph's Convent, taken from Holly Hills and Pennsylvania."
Outside View of St. Joseph's Convent
Title
Outside View of St. Joseph's Convent
Date
1905-01-14
Description
"Ambulatories in the cloistered buildings facing the inner court."
Winter View of St. Joseph's Convent
Title
Winter View of St. Joseph's Convent
Description
A glimpse of the newer part of the St. Joseph's convent.
"The Fighting Father Dunne"
Title
"The Fighting Father Dunne"
Date
1948-04-21
Description
her work has largely in institutions for children before her retirement last year to Nazareth Convent in Lemay. The picture will have its world premiere in St. Louis May 11."
New Sisters Professing their Vows
Title
New Sisters Professing their Vows
Date
1948-03-20
Description
"Twenty-five young women were received as Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet yesterday at their Mother house, 6400 Minnesota Ave. They dressed in white for the ceremonies at which they received the black garb of Sisters. Thirty-one novices professed their vows as part of the rituals at which Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter officiated."

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