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Villa St. Rose

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Portland, United States 3
Completed Year
1902 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Villa St. Rose (Wikipedia)
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1. Villa St. Rose (Wikipedia)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1902)
    completion_date/completed = 1902
  • In Style: Colonial Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Colonial Revival, Georgian
  • In Style: Georgian Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Colonial Revival, Georgian
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2. Villa St. Rose (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q7930508, instance of (P31): villa
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3. Villa St. Rose (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Portland, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Portland, United States
Wikidata item Q7930508, property P131/P17 (location): Portland, United States
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