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The Harry Ransom Center in Texas acquired the Osborne's scripts, journals and business papers for $200,000 and the Hurst was bought by the Arvon Foundation in 1998 through the initiative of Grey Gowrie, former arts minister, and a friend of the Osbornes. [2]
Arvon was founded in 1968 by two young poets, John Fairfax and John Moat. [3] It runs residential writing courses at writing houses in three rural locations: Totleigh Barton, a 16th-century manor house in Devon; The Hurst, a manor house in Shropshire, which formerly belonged to the playwright John Osborne; and the former home of Ted Hughes, Lumb Bank, a 17th-century mill-owner's house hear ...
The Antiochian Village Retreat and Conference Center/Camp was founded in 1978 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Ligonier, Pennsylvania. [2] Owned and operated by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America , it consists of both a Camp and a Retreat and Conference Center.
The building now known as the Old Monastery Inn and Retreat Center was completed in 1920. The second shrine was removed in 1925 so that a third shrine could be built. The cornerstone of the third and present shrine was placed by Archbishop Messmer on August 22, 1926. [5] The present church was completed and consecrated in 1931. [5]
Pendle Hill is a Quaker study, retreat, and conference center located on a 24-acre (9.7 ha) campus in suburban Wallingford, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. It was named for Pendle Hill in Lancashire , England, that the first Quaker preacher described as the site of his calling to ministry . [ 1 ]
The first facilities included a church, a guesthouse, a retreat center, and a cloister that could accommodate twelve monks. On May 20, 1986, the church was consecrated by Bishop Camiña. The Bishop of Digos was accompanied by Archbishop Antonio Lloren Mabutas of Davao and Bishop Patricio Hacbang Alo of Mati , who expressed their hope that the ...
The monastery, mission house, guest center, and small man-made lake for fire protection water, were designed by a nationally known Nebraskan architect, Neil Lamonte Astle (1933-2000). He was the recipient of the "Harry F. Cunningham Gold Medal for Architectural Excellence in the State of Nebraska" and won numerous awards for his design of the ...
The shrine complex includes the basilica, the original 1875 wooden parish church, the parish school, a rectory housing the pastor and other Franciscan priests, a provincial house which houses Franciscan friars, a convent for resident and visiting nuns, a retreat center providing lodgings for lay and religious pilgrims, a gift shop, and a cafeteria.