St. Joseph's Academy was a Catholic school for girls from 1851 to 1971, operated by the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet who also later founded the College of St. Catherine

College of St. Catherine

St. Catherine University is a private Catholic university for women located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. There is also a campus in Minneapolis. Enrollment is 5,246 students. With approximately 2,900 bachelor's students, it is the largest university for women in the United States. Its...

. In 1863 the institution was moved to the existing Marshall Avenue location. It is the oldest Catholic

Catholicism

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 school building in Minnesota and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in Saint Paul

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. The building is constructed of local yellow limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 in the Italianate style. Christ's Household of Faith, a school and non-denominational Christian church, now occupies the building.