Newfoundland & Labrador's Registered Heritage Structures

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The Presentation Convent is the last building of a three-building complex that opened in Placentia on August 4, 1864. Rev. Edward Condon encouraged the Presentation Sisters, under the leadership of Sister Mary de Sales Condren, to establish a convent in Placentia. The name chosen for the convent was "Our Lady of the Angels" in memorial to a group of Franciscan friars from Québec who established Newfoundland's first religious house in 1689.

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In the years following, the chapel building was absorbed into the present church and the music building became part of the school. Renovations in 1950 produced a new residence annex for the old convent, but also removed most of the original trim and left only a single original fireplace.

The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador declared the Presentation Convent a Registered Heritage Structure in October 1992.