National Register of Historic Places
St. Anthony Convent and Convent School
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York
The record
- Listed
- February 1, 2019
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 1024 Court St., Syracuse
- County
- Onondaga
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 3 buildings, 1 object
- Coordinates
- 43.07507, -76.15128
- Reference number
- 100003398
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The story
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St. Anthony Convent and Convent School is a historic district at 1024 Court St. in Syracuse, Onondaga County, listed in the National Register in 2019 with three contributing buildings and one contributing object. The motherhouse dates from around 1896 in the Romanesque Revival style.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture and education, its period of significance running from 1896 to 1962, reflecting the motherhouse's construction around 1896 and the 1962 library wing.
Physical character
The motherhouse is faced in pressed yellow brick with brick and terracotta trim under a red terracotta Spanish tile roof, with a rounded arched entrance; its chapel has Guastavino tile, stained glass and a coffered plaster ceiling. The upper floors gained a fourth floor in 1918 and a third in 1963, and later changes added a 1972 garage, a 1983 solarium and 1993 Wilson Care Center wing.
Historical context
The Sisters of Saint Francis ran the property as their motherhouse, with its second and third floors used as a convent school from 1918 to 1927. The sisters made canonizing Marianne Cope their focus in 1977, dedicated a shrine to her in the motherhouse chapel in 2005, and saw her canonized in 2012. Maria Regina College operated as a two-year women's college from 1963 until it closed in 1988-1989; the sisters sold the campus in 2015 after announcing its closing in 2013.