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Dominican Retreat

and Conference Center

The original retreat house was purchased from the estate of Charles Witbeck in May 1948. The house was beautifully furnished and the transition from a family house to a functional retreat house was not an extremely difficult one. By August of the same year the house was ready to serve the community of the Albany Diocese, and on August 8th, the late Bishop Edmund Gibbons officiated at the dedication. His message to all present at the dedication ceremony: "This house is for you, the people. It is not the Sisters'. It is your house; it will be what you make it."  By August 13th, the retreat house was opening its doors for the first retreat group. Twenty-seven women were present for that first weekend.

As the retreat movement to spread, it became evident that larger accommodations were needed. Plans were made for a new retreat house which would offer accommodations for fifty people.

On May 3rd, 1958, the Most Rev. William Scully officiated at the laying of the cornerstone; on November 22nd of the same year, he blessed and dedicated the new building. The house was officially initiated into the world of retreats with its first weekend retreat on November 28-30, 1958, which fifty women attended.

DOMINICAN RETREAT AND CONFERENCE CENTER

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