![]() ![]() ![]() Because it allows us to track overall patterns, a large sample promises a better understanding of the conventual landscape than do isolated, building-specific case studies. Taken as a series of artifacts rather than as discrete objects, the 250 buildings that the Grey Nuns and the Sisters of Providence erected and administered across North America povide an index to larger social, cultural, economic, political, and religious change in a period of industrialization. ![]() Discovering how these institutional landscapes were organized and built not only provides insight into these ubiquitous buildings, but also the ways in which struggles over Church, State, individual and communal power were resolved in architectural terms. ![]() These structures have remained unexamined within the history of architecture despite their prominence in the landscape and in society. Different types of buildings and site - convents, hospital, orphanages, creches, hospices, asylums, dispensaries, and schools - comprised this social and physical infrastructure during the period between the mid-nineteenth century religious revival and the eve of Vatican ll. The convents and charitable institutional buildings that two French-Canadian Catholic communities of women, the Grey Nuns and the Sisters of Providence, established between 18 sustained a social service network that extended from their headquarters in Montreal across Canada and the United States. ![]()
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