Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa. [graphic] Geo. H. Walker & Co. Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.) Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Convents -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969. Philadelphia on Stone POSP 199 Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s. Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co MA. Boston. 1885 Wills, Frank, 1822-1856, architect. Wills, Frank, 1822-1856, architect. [ca. 1885] Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890. 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 52 x 65 cm. (20.5 x 26 in.) digitool:66315 Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT **BW - Religion - Sacred Heart Convent [P.9372] P.9372 Grant Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 4800. Torresdale (Philadelphia, Pa.)