The true second floor -- atop 25 steps -- has room for the den, two spacious bedrooms, two bathrooms and Dee's closet, tidily filled with a collection of vintage clothes and hats.

This section of water and land was once part of a sprawling hub of religious activity — a convent owned by the Ursuline nuns. First occupied in 1824 and demolished in 1912, the site of the ...

And, the Old Ursuline Convent has been around for almost as long. “The convent was completed in 1752, roughly. And it is the oldest structure in the Mississippi Valley,” says Dr. Emilie Gagnet ...

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In the weeks leading up to August 11, 1834, the people of Boston had been openly discussing burning down the Ursuline Convent that stood just outside the city, in what is now Somerville.