For Sale

Are you in the market for a new home?

Do you need bedrooms for a dozen kids?

Or for a dozen relatives that visit too often?

Well, I have the place for you...

(turn on some spooky music here)

This place is like something I've seen in numerous movie thrillers.

Remember the orphanage in Cider House Rules

or the insane asylum in Shutter Island?

We pass this on our way to and from North Dakota

 and I have always wanted to stop for a few pictures.

Here is a little history of it...

In 1864, Mother Gertrude Leupi established a Benedictine monastery for women in Switzerland named Maria Richenbach. Ten years later, five of these Sisters moved to Maryville, Missouri, to minister to German immigrants in the “new country.” Soon after, Bishop Martin Marty, first bishop of Dakota Territory, invited some of them to come to Dakota and help educate the Native Americans. In 1874, these Sisters settled at Zell, SD, where they built their first monastery on a claim of land, as did many pioneer families. Their next move was to Yankton, SD, in the 1880′s to begin a new foundation which they named Sacred Heart Monastery.

This home is in Zell, SD.

 If you're interested zoom in on the realtor sign below and give them a call...
I dare you!

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