The former St Francis Xavier’s Convent is located along Forest Road, in the southern suburb of Arncliffe. It was built in the late 1800s in the Victorian Italianate architectural style as a house for surveyor James Parish and known as "Mintaville". The Sisters of the Order of St Joseph bought it in 1910 for use as a covent. The Catholic church purchased part of the land in 1911 to build the adjacent church and school along Forest Road, which I featured over the last two days.
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A lovely photo of a beautiful building!
ReplyDeleteit's a beauty! do PLEASE link this up next thursday! feel free to link in with a second post, too! i leave it open for a day and a half. it opens 5:30 a.m. texas (central) time, so i think that would be thurs. evening for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks, TexWisGirl. I'll try and remember to link up next week.
DeleteNo wonder it looks attractive.... it was built in the late 1800s as a private house. I think if it was initially built as a convent, the poor old nuns wouldn't have had such lovely late Victorian architecture.
ReplyDeleteA Beautiful old building.
ReplyDeleteLovely rusty reds, Jim!
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Tis a lovely building.
ReplyDeleteWonderful building!
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A lovely wrought iron fence and beautiful building!
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thank you so much!!
ReplyDeleteHi Jim Looks a lovely building with a great fence.
ReplyDeleteStunning! What an amazing place that is!
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous old building, with beautiful ornate fencing.
ReplyDeleteLove all that gingerbread! And a great fence!
ReplyDeleteThat fence matches the structure for sure. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pretty building and a nice fence! Great shot!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful building the convent is located in and all the wonderful scroll work on the fence is beautiful.
ReplyDeletelovely detail
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Love all the scrolling detail.
ReplyDeleteI really like the style of the architecture Jim. Especially those lovely bay windows.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous building.
ReplyDeleteJames Parish was my great great grandfather and his wife, Annie Minta Parish, is the person the house is named for. The name Minta was passed down through the generations. Both my grandmother (Doris Minta Parish) and her niece (Jeanne Minta Parish) had the name Minta as their second name.
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