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The Ursuline Sisters headquarters in Blue Point is going up for sale, Newsday reported on Sunday. According to the story by reporter Bart Jones, the aging order of Catholic nuns need to sell the 8.3-acre property on Middle Road, where they’ve been headquartered since 1935, to pay for rising living costs and health care expenses.
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It costs the order $900,000 a year to run the St. Ursula Center, the story reads. Town Councilman Neil Foley is pushing the idea for a relocation of the Bayport-Blue Point public library to the center, which is 35,000 square feet in size.
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The St. Ursula Center is located on the same property as the spectacular South Bay House hotel and resort, which could accommodate 300 guests and was located at the southwest corner of Middle Road and Blue Point Avenue. It urned down on Sept. 11, 1930.
The Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk purchased the property from the Senger estate in 1935 for a convent, and today it’s used primarily as a place of retirement and care for older sisters, according to the Ursuline Sisters website.
The original convent building was also lost to fire in 1980 and re-built as it stands today.
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