This publication serves as documentation of my discovery of the historic buildings around the intersection of North Morris Street, Floyd Avenue, and North Brunswick Street, previously known as Short Street. In short, the area is now home to many Virginia Commonwealth University owned buildings and residential apartments that used to be filled with Catholic School buildings from the 1930’s.

By word of mouth, I was told that my apartment building located at 107 North Morris Street Richmond, Virginia was previously a nunnery. I was curious about the three story red brick building and the validity of this information so naturally I went to Google and began my search. Through talking with historically and architecturally literate people I began to find more information about the buildings surrounding my apartment. I soon found out more about the rich history surrounding me than my specific building. Ironically, this is such a metaphor for history in general. To isolate the information on my apartment building by itself, would be to ignore the history that surrounds it. I was eventually pointed to a place where I found that my building was indeed previously a convent– just a part of the vast history of the surrounding buildings. At the conclusion of producing this publication, I can say I live my life more aware and knowledgeable of my surroundings.

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