Villa St. Rose is a former Catholic convent and school for girls at 597 N. Dekum Street in north Portland, Oregon, built in 1902 to a Colonial Revival and Georgian design by architects Joseph Jacobberger and the firm Litherland and Abrey. It was established by the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, founded by Sister Rose Virginia Pelletier, and operated as a boarding school for troubled adolescent girls that once enrolled as many as 200 students, continuing to house and rehabilitate girls aged 12 to 21 as late as 1972. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 2000, and designated a Portland Historic Landmark, and by 2017 it had been repurposed as Rosemont Court, providing housing for 100 low-income elders and 18 families on its 2.4-acre property.
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