page_title: Convent and Academy of the Visitation
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Convent and Academy of the Visitation / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Sacred Heart Chapel at the Visitation Monastery in Mobile, Alabama. Part of the Historic Roman Catholic Properties multiple properties listing with the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: The Convent and Academy of the Visitation, properly known today as the Visitation Monastery, is a historic complex of Roman Catholic religious buildings and a small cemetery in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The buildings and grounds were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1992 as a part of Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile Multiple Property Submission. It, along with the Convent of Mercy, is one of two surviving historic convent complexes in Mobile.
context_section_description: The major buildings include the quadrangle of French Renaissance Revival style buildings completed in 1855, in addition to several later structures.  The Romanesque Revival Sacred Heart Chapel was completed on the grounds in 1895.  A priest's house for visiting clerics was completed in 1899, in a stylistic blending of the  Romanesque Revival and Gothic Revival styles.  The grounds of the convent are enclosed with high brick walls, dating to the 1850s.  In addition to the outer wall, inner walls separate the public and private areas of the main complex and also enclose a private cemetery for the Order of the Visitation.  The graves are marked by simple white crosses.
caption: Sacred Heart Chapel
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