Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Archivist: Catherine Lucy
(314) 678-0320
archivist@csjcarondelet.org
6400 Minnesota Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63111
Refer to the Access Policy before arrival
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Archivist: Catherine Lucy
(314) 678-0320
archivist@csjcarondelet.org
6400 Minnesota Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63111
Refer to the Access Policy before arrival
The Sisters of St. Joseph Consolidated Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing the following themes:
- Art
- Black history
- Education
- Health care/hospitals/asylums
- Indigenous Catholics
- Literature
- Material culture
- Missionaries
- Music
- Orphans
- Refugees
- Relics
- Segregation
- Social justice/activism
- War
Please download the Finding Aid for a complete guide to the collection.
Archivist: Amanda Gesiorski
(314) 625-9235
agesiorski@visitationmonastery.org
3020 N. Ballas Road St. Louis, MO 63131
Hours: open by appointment only Monday-Friday
The Visitation Academy Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing the following themes:
- Alms
- Art
- Canonization/saints
- Children
- Dissidents
- Education
- Family
- Finance
- Global networks
- Land rights/ maps
- Literature
- Liturgy
- Martyrs
- Material culture (artifacts)
- Modernity
- Music
- Orphans
- Political movements
- Print culture
- Relics
- Ritual
- Secular/secularism/secularity
- Segregation
- Sex/sexuality
Archivist: Rena Schergen
(314) 792-7026
renaschergen@archstl.org
20 Archbishop May Drive St. Louis, MO 63119
Hours: open by appointment only Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm. The archives are closed on holidays and holy days:
- January 3 for New Year’s Day
- January 17 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- February 21 for President’s Day
- April 15 for Good Friday
- May 30 for Memorial Day
- July 4 for Independence Day
- August 15 for Feast of Assumption
- September 5 for Labor Day
- November 1 for All Saints Day
- November 24-25 for Thanksgiving
- December 8 for Feast of Immaculate Conception
- December 25-January 1 for Christmas and New Year
The Archdiocesan Archives contain sources that might be useful to researchers pursuing the following themes:
- Black history
- Indigenous missions
- Migration
- Missionaries
- Refugees
- Segregation
- Slave trade
- Social justice/activism
- War
Saint Louis University Archives
Archivist: Caitlin Stamm
(314) 977-3109
Third floor of Pius XII Memorial Library in Room 307. All non-SLU patrons must sign in at the Lindell entrance service desk with a photo ID.
Hours: open by appointment only Monday-Friday
Note: All recipients of the St. Louis Catholic Archives Visiting Research Grant are required to participate in an interview about their project with archivists from all institutions they intend to visit. In advance of this interview, please prepare the following materials:
- Project description
- List of all archival materials to be consulted with title and call number
- Purpose of research (i.e. production of a book, article, dissertation/thesis, etc.)
- Signed User Agreement for Researchers