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Monastery of the Visitation · 8902 Ridge Boulevard
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New Convent + Academy of the Visitation

New Convent + Academy of the Visitation 90th + 2 Ave/ Bayridge 1903 [handwritten on recto]

Scrapbook page from "Views of New York City, Brooklyn, and Other Places Vol. 3", by Eugene Armbruster.

Monastery of the Visitation

New Convent + Academy of the Visitation

New Convent + Academy of the Visitation 90th + 2 Ave/ Bayridge 1903 [handwritten on recto]

Scrapbook page from "Views of New York City, Brooklyn, and Other Places Vol. 3", by Eugene Armbruster.

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VISITATION ACADEMY 8902 Ridge Boulevard, 1913

This private girls’ school was designed in the Italian neo-Renaissance style. The beige brick chapel features circular windows on its upper stories, triangular gables, a square tower with an arcaded belfry and decorative cruciform brickwork on its south façade. The entire complex is surrounded by a 20-foot stone and concrete wall. The site was previously home to the Kings County Inebriate Asylum and a natural glacier lake exists on the grounds.

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